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

Reference ID

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

Year

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

Sponsor(s)

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

Collection(s)

National Sample Survey

Metadata

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Mar 10, 2016

Last modified

Mar 31, 2016

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Srl.No.of bovine (B11_c1)
File: Block-11-visit-1-Cattle-buffalo-owned-household-records

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 3

Valid cases: 30689
Invalid: 0

Definition

The number of cattle and buffaloes owned by the household on the date of survey will be recorded in this block. The total number of cattle owned by the household will be first classified into two groups, viz. (a) crossbred cattle and (b) nondescript cattle. Crossbred cattle's are those which are produced by crossing the indigenous breed with the exotic breed, i.e. imported foreign variety. For the purpose of the survey, however the cattle of exotic breed will also be considered as crossbred. All the other cattle will be classified as 'nondescript cattle'.

Questions and instructions

Interviewer instructions

Each type of bovine livestock, viz. crossbred cattle, nondescript cattle and buffaloes, will be separately classified by age, sex and use. For each of them, the number belonging to different classes will be recorded in appropriate columns.