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

Basic sample design was stratified two stage with census villages and urban blocks as the first stage unit in rural and urban sectors respectively and house holds as the second stage units in both sectors.While the villages were selected with probability proportional to population with replacement, the sample blocks were selected by simple random sampling without replacemet (both in the form of two independet sub samples). The househlds listed in the sample villages or block divided in to two sub-strata; sub-stratum-1 consisting of households with one or more members enrolled at post-primary level,and sub-stratum- 2 of all the remaining households.These sample households were selectted circular systematically with the the random start from each sub-stratum (six households in all)


In the absence of an electronic/hard copy of the 'Sampling design and estimation procedure' details could not be provided

There was no deviation from the original sampling design

Sample weights were calculated and included in each of the data files
Multipliers for Sub-stratum -1, sub-stratum-2 and Combined have been computed and posted in the data.

Variable 'Wgt_SS-1' refers to Multiplier for each Sub-stratum 1.
Variable 'Wgt_SS-2' refers to Multiplier for each Sub-stratum 2.
Variable 'Wgt_Combined' refers to Combined Multiplier.

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