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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Private clinic/doctor (Bl4_q20)
File: Village_facility

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 4643
Invalid: 0

Definition

Private Clinic/ Doctor: Private clinic refers to the consulting place/ chamber of private doctors. Doctors are those having degrees/diploma in medicine and also registration from recognized universities/ institutions deemed to be universities. These doctors may follow any of the systems - allopathic, homeopathic, ayurvedic, unani.

Questions and instructions

Universe

Distance from nearest facility ?

Literal question

How far is facility from Private clinic/doctor

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	NR	4	0.1%
1	within village	1790	38.6%
2	outside village: less than 2 km	449	9.7%
3	2 to 5 km	909	19.6%
4	5 to 10 km	643	13.8%
5	10 km or more	848	18.3%

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