India - Employment and Unemployment: NSS 61st Round, Schedule 10, July 2004 - June 2005

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-61-12-2011

Year

2004 - 2005

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

Sponsor(s)

Govt. of India - -
Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation - -

Collection(s)

National Sample Survey

Metadata

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Purpose (Purpose)
File: Block_3pt1_level_02

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 12609
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

purpose (code)

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	NR	0	0.0%
1	Household consumption: medical expenses	1614	12.8%
2	Educational expenses	165	1.3%
3	Legal expenses	33	0.3%
4	Other expenses	5743	45.5%
5	Marriage and other ceremonial expenses	1474	11.7%
6	Purchase of land/ construction of building	1030	8.2%
7	Productive purpose	1331	10.6%
8	Repayment of debt	315	2.5%
9	Others	904	7.2%

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 purpose for which the loan has been contracted, irrespective of the actual use of the loan, by the household will be recorded in this column in terms of codes. If a particular loan is taken to meet more than one purpose, the purpose for which large part of the loan is intended to be utilised will be considered for recording entries in this column. The relevant codes are:

household consumption :
medical expenses ......................................... 1
Educational expenses .................................. 2
legal expenses ............................................. 3
other consumption expenses ........................ 4
marriage and other ceremonial expenses ........... 5
purchase of land / construction of building........ 6
productive purpose .......................................... 7
repayment of debt .......................................... 8
others ............................................................. 9

The purpose of loan taken for legal expenses for the enterprise will get code 7. Code 4 will cover for loans taken for the purpose of food consumption, consumption of clothing, purchase of durable goods, etc.