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

Documentation in PDF

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Aug 02, 2016

Last modified

Sep 02, 2016

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Personal medical appliances(Rs) (B8_q13)
File: Block-8-part-1-treatment-expenses-365-days-members-records

Overview

Type: Continuous
Format: numeric
Width: 5
Decimals: 0
Range: 0-90000

Valid cases: 2094
Invalid: 30571
Minimum: 0
Maximum: 90000
Mean: 771
Standard deviation: 4095.9

Questions and instructions

Interviewer instructions

The amount payable for acquisition of personal medical appliances of durable nature like spectacles / contact lens, intro-ocular lens, hearing aid, trusses, crutches, artificial limb, pacemaker etc. for the purpose of treatment of the patient at the hospital will be recorded here. Note that appliances like thermometer, infra-red lamp, blood-pressure measuring equipment, blood-sugar measuring kit, bed-pan / urinal etc. will not be treated as personal medical appliances. If such items have been purchased for the purpose of treatment and during the stay at hospital, those will be recorded against item 15 (blood, oxygen cylinder, etc.).