India - Household Consumer Expenditure, January-December, 1983, NSS 38th Round

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-38Rnd-Sch1.0-1983

Year

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office - M/o Statistics and Programme Implementation(MOSPI),Government of India (GOI)

Sponsor(s)

M/o Statistics & Programme Implementation, GOI - MOSPI -

Collection(s)

Household Consumer Expenditure

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Jan 15, 2018

Last modified

Mar 26, 2019

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Condition of the house code (B10_q9)
File: Blocks 1,3 and 10- Household Characteristics

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 117604
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Condition of the house code?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	Not reported	818	0.7%
1	Excellent	19157	16.3%
2	Fairly good and needs no major repair	75594	64.3%
3	Bad, dilapidated and impoverished	22035	18.7%

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Interviewer instructions

Against this item is to be recorded the physical condition of the house in the sense whether the house is excellent for habitation and seems to need no major repairs, fairly good and needs no major repairs; bad dilapidated and impoverished (either needs immediate repairs/structural changes or not suitable for permanent habitation at all). Different codes are given in the schedule and appropriate code has to be entered against this item. Major repairs will constitute such essential repairs of the house without which the house is risky or very healthy for human habitation. The condition of the house will have to be assessed at the time of investigation and the appropriate code will be recorded here.