India - Household Social Consumption: Health, NSS 75th Round Schedule-25.0 :July 2017-June 2018

V1.0, Reorganised anonymised data set for public distribution

The survey on health aims to generate basic quantitative information on the health sector. A vital component is the information relevant to the determination of the prevalence rate of morbidity among various age-sex groups in different regions of the country. Further, measurement of the extent of use of health services provided by the government is an indispensable part of the exercise. Special attention is given to hospitalisation, or medical care received as in-patient of medical institutions. The ailments for which such medical care is sought, the extent of use of government hospitals, and the expenditure incurred on treatment received from public and private sectors, are all to be investigated by the survey. Break-up of expenditure by various heads is to be estimated for expenses on medical care received both as in-patient and otherwise.

Reference period : July 2017-June 2018

Period of survey and work programme: The survey period of the round will be divided into four sub-rounds of three months' duration each as follows:

sub-round 1 : July - September 2017

sub-round 2 : October - December 2017

sub-round 3 : January - March 2018

sub-round 4 : April - June 2018

For the first time in NSS health survey, the data collected will enable assessment of population who are affected by some widespread communicable diseases. Like previous round, data will be collected on alternative schools of medicine as well, which enable to derive the role of these types of medicines inrespective of prevalence of use, cost of treatment and type of ailments covered. Besides, the survey will ascertain the extent of use of private and public hospitals for childbirth, the cost incurred, and the extent of receipt of pre-natal and post-natal care by women who undergo childbirth. Moreover, status of immunisation of children age 0-5 years will be estimated as on date of survey. Finally, information on certain aspects of the condition of the 60-plus population will be obtained which have a bearing on their state of health, economic independence, and degree of isolation. Primarily, indicators on morbidity (proportion of ailing persons during last 15 days), hospitalization rates, the utilization of both public and private health care institutions, proportion of institutional childbirth etc will be attempted to be derived from this survey data with special emphasis on ‘out of pocket expenses’ as well as on access to

government financed health insurance programmes.

Randomly selected households based on sampling procedure and members of the household.