India - Household Consumer Expenditure, July 1999 - June 2000, NSS 55th Round

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-55Rnd-Sch1-July1999-June2000

Year

1999 - 2000

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

Created on

Jan 17, 2018

Last modified

Mar 27, 2019

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HH Recd Any Income from Assistance from IRDP (B3_q19)
File: Blocks 1,3,12_Household Characteristics

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 119545
Invalid: 0

Definition

Integrated Rural Development Programme (IRDP) is one of the Indian Government's main poverty alleviation programmes in the field of rural development. Its object is the uplift of rural families identified as poor. The objective is sought to be achieved by providing productive assets and inputs to target groups. The assets are provided through financial assistance in the form of subsidy from the Government and term credit advance by financial institutions. The programme is implemented in all the community development blocks in the country.

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Whether household received any income from assistance from IRDP?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	no	113833	95.2%
2	yes: milch animal	3968	3.3%
3	yes: draught animal	100	0.1%
4	yes: sheep/goat	123	0.1%
5	yes: pumpset	183	0.2%
6	yes: for fish-pond	20	0.0%
7	yes: sewing machine	61	0.1%
8	yes: others: agricultural tools & equipment	156	0.1%
9	yes: others	1101	0.9%

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 answer to this question will be recorded in code. If the household has not received any assistance from IRDP during the last 5 years, code 1 will be recorded. For yes, the codes are: milch animal - 2, draught animal - 3, sheep/goat - 4, pumpset - 5, for fish-pond - 6, sewing machine - 7, others: agricultural tools & equipment -8, others - 9.

Note 1: If household 'A' received IRDP assistance but household 'B' has utilized it then household 'A' will be treated as having received the assistance.
2: If a household gets IRDP assistance for more than once during the reference period, the code for which received last will be given.