India - Employment and Unemployment Survey: NSS 43rd Round : July 1987 - June 1988, Fourth Quinquennial Survey

The total land area possessed by the household will be worked out as question 7+8+9-10 and recorded against this item 2 places of decimal. A piece of land is considered to be owned by the household if permanent heritable possession with or without the right to transfer the title is vested in a member or the members of the household. Land held in owner like possession say, under perpetual lease, hereditary tenure, long term leases for 30 years or more, etc., will also be considered as land owned. For a piece of land under the possession of the household, if the household lacks title of ownership and also it does not have any lease agreement for the use of land transacted either verbally or in writing, such land will be considered as neither owned nor 1 seed in.