India - Common Property Resources and Village Facilities, January - June 1998, NSS 54th Round

Reference ID

IND-NSSO-CPRVF-1998-v01

Year

1998

Country

India

Producer(s)

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

Sponsor(s)

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

Collection(s)

Other Surveys

Created on

Jan 17, 2018

Last modified

Mar 27, 2019

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right of use (B4_q1_2c)
File: Block 4_Common village land and conventional right of use

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 0
Invalid: 0

Definition

This item will include all such land which are under village forests and woodlots. This will also include the area notified as forest within the village which may belong to forest department, or any other government department (like Revenue Deptt. or PWD) but is formally under the management of village panchayat or a community of the village.

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Who all have the right of use of village forest ?

Categories

Value	Category
0	not reported
1	No right of community use on any part
2	There is some area for community use and it is entirely owned and managed by a tribal community
3	There is some area for community use and it is entirely reserved for a non-tribal community or more than one communities
4	There is some area for community use and it is partly reserved for certain communities and partly for all villagers
5	There is some area for community use and it is entirely for all villagers

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

Items 1.1 to 1.4 & 1.9: Common village land as on the date of survey and conventional right of use: Common village land or Commons refers to common property land resources within the boundary of the sample village. The area of common property land resources in this restricted sense, and the right of use of the villagers will be recorded in these items.