INDIA - Survey on Health Care: NSS 52nd Round, Schedule 25, 1995 - 1996

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-52-25.0-2011

Year

1995 - 1996

Country

INDIA

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

Sponsor(s)

Govt. Of India - -
Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation - -

Collection(s)

National Sample Survey

Metadata

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Mar 16, 2016

Last modified

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Household size (HH_SIZE)
File: HOUSEHOLD CHARACTERISTICS(Block 1 & 2)

Overview

Type: Continuous
Format: numeric
Width: 2
Decimals: 0

Valid cases: 120942
Invalid: 0
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 40
Mean: 5.2
Standard deviation: 2.6

Definition

Household : A group of persons normally living together and taking food from a common kitchen will constitute a household. The members of a household may or may not be related by blood to one another

Household size : The number of normally resident members of a household is its size. It will include temporary stairways but exclude temporary visitors and guest.

Questions and instructions

Interviewer instructions

The determination of the actual composition of a household will be left to the judgment of the head of the household, the following procedures will be followed as guidelines :

(I) In deciding the composition of a household, more emphasis is to be placed on 'normally living together' than on 'ordinarily taking food from a common kitchen'. In case the place of residence of a person is different from the place of boarding, he or she will be treated as a member of the household with whom he or she resides.

(ii) A resident employee, or domestic servant, or a paying guest (but not just a tenant in the household) will be considered as a member of the household with whom he or she resides even though he or she is not a member of the same family.

(iii) When a person sleeps in one place (say, in a shop or a room in another house because of space shortage) but usually takes food with his or her family, he or she should be treated not as a single member household but as a member of the household in which other members of his or her family stay.

(iv) If a member of a household (say, a son or a daughter of the head of the household) stays elsewhere (say, in hostel for studies or for any other reason) he/she will not be considered as a member of his/her parent's household. However, he/she will be listed as a single member household if the hostel is listed.