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

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Whether child etc staying nearby (CHILD_STAY_NEARBY)
File: DETAILS OF ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE & CHRONIC AILMENTS FOR THE AGED(above 60 yrs)(Block 9)

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 33990
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Pre question

Does the aged person have any child/garndchild/sibling?

Literal question

If living alone(with spouse/ as inmate of old age home or not), then is there any child/grandchild/sibling staying nearby?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	No response	30216	88.9%
1	within the same building	832	2.4%
2	within the same village/town	1190	3.5%
3	outside the vilage /town	1112	3.3%
4	not applicable	640	1.9%

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

This item was filled in for aged persons who are staying alone or staying with spouse only. It is to be first enquired whether the aged person is having any child / grand child / sibling or not and then their place of stay. The information thus obtained will be recorded in codes here. The codes are :

1 within the same building
2 within the same village/town
3 outside the vilage /town
4 not applicable