India - Common Property Resources & Village Facilities, NSS 54th Round : Jan 1998 - June 1998

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-54Rnd-Sch3pt3-Jan1998-June1998

Year

1998

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)

Other Surveys

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Jan 17, 2018

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legal status (B4_q12)
File: Block 4_Forest within the village and right of use

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 1596
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

What is the legal status of the forest in the vicinity of the village?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Reserved forest	470	29.4%
2	Protected forest	526	33.0%
3	community / village / van panchayat forest	160	10.0%
4	Other unclassed forests	440	27.6%

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

The legal status of the forest in the vicinity of the village is to be ascertained and recorded in terms of the following codes:

Reserved forest ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ..1
Protected forest .. ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...2
Community or village or Van Panchayat forest .. ..... 3
Other unclassed forest ... ... ... ... ... ... ... .. 4

Note that a community or village or Van Panchayat forest may be reported to be in the vicinity of the sample village, which belongs to some other village. Ordinarily, the villagers of the sample village are not expected to have any legitimate right of use of such a forest. Since, this item is expected to reflect the rights of use of the villagers of the sample village, code '3' will not be applicable in such cases -- these will be assigned code '4'.