India - Survey on Utilisation of Medical Services : NSS 42nd Round, Schedule 25.7, July 1986 - June 1987

Reference ID

IND-NSSO-42ndRnd-Sch25.7-UMS-1986-87

Year

1986 - 1987

Country

India

Producer(s)

FOD(NSSO)

Sponsor(s)

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

Collection(s)

National Sample Survey

Metadata

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Mar 10, 2016

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Reason for no treatment(B7_q22)
File: Ailments and treatment during 30 days (Block 7)

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: numeric
Width: 1
Decimals: 0
Range: 0-9

Valid cases: 8048
Invalid: 41353
Minimum: 0
Maximum: 9
Mean: 4.6

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Reason for no treatment

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	NR	339	4.2%
1	no medical facilities (inc. doctor) available in the neighbourhood	418	5.2%
2	medical facilities available but no treatment sought due to lack of faith in the system of medicine	359	4.5%
3	medical facilities available but no treatment sought due to long waiting	98	1.2%
4	medical facilities available but no treatment sought due to financial reason	2066	25.7%
5	medical facilities available but no treatment sought due to ailment not considered serious	3994	49.6%
9	medical facilities available but no treatment sought due to: others	774	9.6%
Sysmiss		41353

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.