India - Land and Livestock Holdings Survey: NSS 48th Round, Schedule 18.1, January - December 1992: Visit - 1

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DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-48Rnd-Sch18dot1-visit1-1992

Year

Country

India

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National Sample Survey Office

Sponsor(s)

M/o Statistics & Programme Implementation, GOI - MOSPI -

Collection(s)

National Sample Survey

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Mar 10, 2016

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Whether HH possesses homestead land(B5_q5)
File: Block-1-5-visit-1-Household-characteristics-Records

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 53878
Invalid: 0

Definition

Homestead of a household is defined as the
dwelling house of the household together with the courtyard, compound, garden, out-house, place of worship,family graveyard, guest house, shop,
workshop and offices for running household enterprises, tanks, wells, latrines, drains and boundary walls annexed t o the dwelling house. All land coming under homestead was defined as
homestead land.

Homestead may constitute only a part of a plot. Sometimes, gardens, orchards or plantations, though adjacent to the homestead and lying within the
boundary walls, may be located on a clearly distinct piece of land. In such cases, land under garden, orchard or plantation was not considered as
homestead land.

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Yes	53464	99.2%
2	No	414	0.8%

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

First, it will be ascertained whether the household possess homestead land or not. Code '1' will be recorded if the household possess homestead on the date of survey, otherwise code '2' will be entered in this item.