India - Household Consumer Expenditure, NSS 58th Round, Schedule 1, July 2002 - December 2002

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-58Rnd-Sch1.0-2002

Year

2002

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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Jul 29, 2016

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Relation to Head Code (B4_q3)
File: Block 4_Person records

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 154190
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

What is the relationship of the members of the household with the head of the household?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Head	32669	21.2%
2	Spouse of head	25923	16.8%
3	Married child	7240	4.7%
4	Spouse of married child	6884	4.5%
5	Unmarried child	59129	38.3%
6	Grandchild	11628	7.5%
7	Father/mother/father-in-law/mother-in-law	4172	2.7%
8	Brother/sister/brother-in-law/sister-in-law/other relations	6115	4.0%
9	Servant/employee/or non-relatives	430	0.3%

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

The family relationship of each member of the household with the head of the household (for the head, the relationship is 'self') expressed in terms of specified codes will be recorded in this column. The codes to be used are :

description code

self ................................................ 1
spouse of head ...................................... 2
married child ....................................... 3
spouse of married child ............................. 4
unmarried child ..................................... 5
grandchild .......................................... 6
father/mother/father-in-law/mother-in-law ........... 7
brother/sister/brother-in-law/sister-in-law/other
relatives............................................. 8
servant/employee/other non-relatives ................ 9