India - Village Facilities Survey : NSS 58th Round, Schedule 3.1, July 2002 - December 2002

MoSPI-NSS
Reference ID IND-NSSO-58Rnd-Sch3.1-VF-2002
Year 2002
Country India
Producer(s) NSSO
Sponsor(s) Ministry of Statiistics and PI - MOSPI, Government of India -
Collection(s)
National Sample Survey
Metadata PDF Documentation in PDF
Created on
Aug 01, 2016
Last modified
Sep 02, 2016
Page views
99419
Sub-centre/Dispensary (Bl4_q16)
File: Village_facility
Overview
Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1
Valid cases: 4640
Invalid: 0
Definition
Sub-centre/ Dispensary: A Sub-centre is the most peripheral contact point in the primary health care system. It covers around 5,000 persons in the plains and 3,000 in hilly/tribal areas. It is run by the Government and located in the rural area. It is manned by two multi-purpose health workers – one male and one female. A Sub-centre usually does not have facilities for treatment of the sick as in-patients. These centres are run by the Government. A Dispensary is the consulting place/ chamber which does not, generally, have facilities for treatment of the sick as in-patients.
Questions and instructions
Universe
Distance from nearest facility ?
Literal question
How far is facility from sub- centre / dispensary ?
Categories
ValueCategoryCases
1 within village 1819 39.2%
2 outside village: less than 2 km 624 13.4%
3 2 to 5 km 1109 23.9%
4 5 to 10 km 635 13.7%
5 10 km or more 449 9.7%
9 NR 4 0.1%
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
distance should be coded as :
within village – 1; outside village: less than 2 km – 2, 2 to 5 km – 3,
5 to 10 km – 4, 10 km or more – 5

Powered by NADA.