India - Common Property Resources, Sanitation Hygiene Services: NSS 54th Round, Schedule 31, January 1998 - June 1998

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-54Rnd-Sch31-Jan1998-June1998

Year

1998

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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villagers have timber rights for self use (B12_q5)
File: Blocks 12, 13_General information on uses of common land resources and on cultivation by the household

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 78695
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Do the villages have timber right for self use?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	yes	5099	6.5%
2	no	73596	93.5%

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

Wood is broadly classed as fuelwood and timber. People living in areas adjoining forests, particularly protected and unclassed forests, usually have user right, more often restricted, to collection of fuelwood. Occasionally, villagers also have right to timber. the right being usually confined to timber for self use. It will be ascertained from the household whether there is a practice of granting villages the permit of cutting trees for timber. The response will recorded in this item in terms of codes (yes - 1, no - 2).