India - Housing Condition and Migration Survey, January - June 1993, NSS 49th Round

India Housing Condition and Migration Survey, January - June 1993

NSS 49th Round

Socio-Economic/Household Survey Housing condition of the people is one of the very important indicators of the socio-economic development of the country. Statistical data on housing condition in qualitative and quantitative terms are needed periodically for an assessment of housing stock and formulation of housing policies and programmes. NSS therefore, started collecting data on housing condition of the dwelling units and basic housing amenities available to them from its 7th round (October 1953 - march 1954) to the 23rd round ( July 1968 - June 1969 ) with the exception in the 13th and 14th rounds. A comprehensive survey on housing condition was first carried out in the NSS 28th round (October 1973 - June 1974 ) in the rural and urban areas of the country with a sample six of about 1.2 lakhs households with a view to providing reliable estimates at state/union-territory level. The next comprehensive survey on housing condition was carried out in the NSS 44th round ( July 1988 - June 1989 ). The relevant information were collected in detail in a separate schedule canvassed from about 74,000 sample households. A similar comprehensive survey on housing condition was conducted in the NSS 49th round along with a survey on migration.

ID Number DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-49Rnd-Sch1dot2-1993

A comprehensive survey on `housing condition` was earlier carried out by the NSSO in its 44th round (1988-89) operations. Data on immigration were last collected as a part of the fourth quinquennial survey on employment and unemployment during 1987-88 (NSS 43rd round). In view of the importance of upto date statistical intelligence regarding housing stock as well as additions - both in quantitative and qualitative terms - for formulation of housing policies, the NSS 49th round has mainly been devoted to the survey on housing condition. As the last survey on the conditions of the slum dwellers was carried out by the NSSO over 15 years back, special emphasis was given to obtain the needed information to study the conditions of the slum dwellers. But the slum dwellers consisted of mainly migrant labour, so an integrated schedule to collect information on both the housing condition and migration with emphasis on slum dwellers was formulated for the 49th round survey. The schedule was framed to collect housing statistics relating to information on (i) the characteristics of the stock of residential housing and amenities currently available and (ii) addition through construction of buildings for habitation purpose. Relating to migration, collected information on out migration and also international migration. In addition, collected information on conditions of slum dwellers and also utilisation of public distribution system in respect of essential commodities.

The present study was different from the earlier study in the sense that the coverage in the present round was much wider. Ddetailed information on migration have been made with a view to throw data on different facets of migration. For this reason we find separate migration data for males & females, migrant households, return migrants, the structure of the residence of the migrants' households before & after migration, status of the migrants before and after migration and other details on migration. It is to be noted that comprehensive data on out-migrants & return-migrants have been collected for the first time in the 49th round.

Housing condition, Building, Migration, Usual place of residence(UPR), Flood risk, Approach Road, Dwelling, Living facilities, Building construction, Public distribution system(PDS), Slum dwellers, Return-migrant, Out-migrant The survey covered the whole of Indian union excepting ( i) Ladakh and kargil districts of Jammu & kashmir ( ii ) 768 interior villages of Nagaland ( out of a total of 1119 villages ) located beyond 5 kms. of a bus route and ( iii ) 172 villages in Andaman & Nicobar islands ( out of a total of 520 villages ) which are inaccessible throughout the year.

The survey used the interview method of data collection from a sample of randomly selected households and members of the household

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation	Role
Computer Centre	MOSPI, CC	M/O Statistics & Programme Implementation	Documentation of the study

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DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-49Rnd-Sch1dot2-1993