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

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

Metadata

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Staying nearby? (B6_q10)
File: Block-6-aged-persons-records

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 5377
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

For codes 1, 2 or 3 in item 9, whether child / grandchild / sibling staying nearby:

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	NR	9	0.2%
1	yes: within the same building	1172	21.8%
2	within the village/town	1944	36.2%
3	outside the village/town	1529	28.4%
4	not applicable	714	13.3%
9	Invalid	9	0.2%

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 will be filled in for aged persons who are staying alone or staying with spouse only. It is to be first ascertained whether the aged person is having any child / grand child / sibling or not and if they have, then to enquire about their place of stay. The information thus obtained will be recorded in codes here.

For those who do not have any child / grandchild / sibling living, code 4 will be applicable for them.