India - Land, Livestock Holdings Survey: NSS 59th Round, Schedule 18.1_v1, January - December 2003 - Visit 1

MoSPI-NSS
Reference ID DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-59th-Sch18dot1-visit1-2003
Year 2003
Country India
Producer(s) National Sample Survey Office
Sponsor(s) M/o Statistics & Programme Implementation, GOI - MOSPI -
Collection(s)
National Sample Survey
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Aug 01, 2016
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Soil type (B5_c6)
File: Block-5-particulars-land-household-records-visit-1
Overview
Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1
Valid cases: 199161
Invalid: 0
Questions and instructions
Categories
ValueCategoryCases
1 sand 22605 11.4%
2 loam 51380 25.8%
3 silt 14578 7.3%
4 light clay 67900 34.1%
5 heavy clay 17465 8.8%
9 others 25233 12.7%
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
Soil type indicates texture of the soil. Three important factors which determine the soil texture are sand, silt and clay. Depending on their quantum in the soil, the soil can be divided into five groups, viz., sand, loam, silt, clay and clay-loam. This column will be filled in terms of code.

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