India - Survey on Morbidity and Health Care: NSS 60th Round, Schedule 25, January 2004 - June 2005

MoSPI-NSS
Reference ID DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-60th-Sch25-2004
Year 2004
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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State of economic independence (B6_q5)
File: Block-6-aged-persons-records
Overview
Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1
Valid cases: 34229
Invalid: 0
Questions and instructions
Categories
ValueCategoryCases
1 not dependent on others 11800 34.5%
2 partially dependent on others 4686 13.7%
3 fully dependent on others 17743 51.8%
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
An aged person is to be considered economically dependent on others if he/she is required to take financial help from others in order to lead his/her day-to-day normal life. The information on economic independence of the aged persons will be collected and relevant codes entered against this item
If the aged person is to depend partly or fully for his/her day-to-day normal life, then code 2 or 3 is to be recorded depending upon the situation.

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