India - Village Facilities Survey , July 2002-December 2002, NSS 58th Round

Reference ID

IND-NSSO-58Rnd-Sch3.1-VF-2002

Year

2002

Country

India

Producer(s)

NSSO - Ministry of Statistics and PI, Government of India

Sponsor(s)

Ministry of Statiistics and PI - MOSPI, Government of India -

Collection(s)

Other Surveys

Created on

Jan 17, 2018

Last modified

Mar 27, 2019

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Community health centre/govt. hospt (Bl4_q18)
File: Village_facility

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 4641
Invalid: 0

Definition

Community Health Centre/ Government Hospital: A Community Health Centre (CHC) serves a population of 1.2 lakhs in the plains and 80,000 in the hilly/ tribal areas. The CHC functions as referral centre for the PHC. It is manned by medical specialists and paramedical staff and has in-patient and out-patient facilities. Medical institutions having provision of admission of sick persons as in-door patients (in-patients) for treatment are called hospitals. Hospitals run by the Central/ State government or local bodies like municipalities have been covered under this category.

Questions and instructions

Universe

Distance from nearest facility ?

Literal question

How far is facility from Community health centre/govt. hospital

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	within village	320	6.9%
2	outside village: less than 2 km	232	5.0%
3	2 to 5 km	775	16.7%
4	5 to 10 km	1050	22.6%
5	10 km or more	2261	48.7%
9	NR	3	0.1%

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

distance should be coded as :
within village – 1; outside village: less than 2 km – 2, 2 to 5 km – 3,
5 to 10 km – 4, 10 km or more – 5