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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Overview

Identification

Country

India

Title

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

Study Type

Socio-Economic/Household Survey

ID Number

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-60th-Sch25-2004

Version

Version Description

Production Date

2012-12-30

Overview

Abstract

The National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) was set up in 1950 as a permanent survey organisation to collect data on various facets of the Indian economy through nation-wide sample surveys in order to assist in socio-economic planning and policy-making. The National Sample Survey made its first attempt to collect information on morbidity in the seventh round (Oct. 1953 - March 1954). This survey and the morbidity surveys conducted in the three subsequent rounds (the eleventh to the thirteenth, 1956-58) were all exploratory in nature. The aim of these surveys was to evolve an appropriate data collection method for studying morbidity profile in India. These surveys were followed up by a pilot survey in the seventeenth round (Sept. 1961 - July 1962) to examine alternative approaches of morbidity reporting. With the aid of the findings of these exploratory surveys, a full-scale survey on morbidity was conducted in the twenty-eighth round (Oct. 1973 - June 1974). Since then, the NSSO had not undertaken any separate morbidity survey and data on morbidity became a part of the decennial surveys on social consumption.

The NSSO carried out the first all-India Survey on Social Consumption in its 35th round (July 1980 - June 1981). The items covered were the public distribution system, health services including mass immunisation and family welfare programmes, and educational services. The results of the survey could not be brought out owing to some unavoidable reasons. The second survey on Social Consumption was carried out in the 42nd round (July 1986 - June 1987) with some modifications in the coverage of subjects. Topics like Problems of Aged Persons were included in this round. The third Survey on Social Consumption was carried out in the 52nd

round (July 1995 - June 1996). Two topics, viz. utilisation of the public distribution system and utilisation of family planning services, were dropped, as these were

covered in the NSS 50th round and in a nationwide survey by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, respectively.

After a gap of about nine years, the Governing Council decided to take up a survey on ‘Morbidity and Health care’ at the request of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, during the period January to June, 2004. The enquiry covered the curative aspects of the general health care system in India and also the utilization of health care services provided by the public and private sector, together with the expenditure incurred by the households for availing these services.

Kind of Data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Units of Analysis

Randomly selected households based on sampling procedure and members of the household

Scope

Notes

In the Sixtieth round of NSS, data was collected through a survey on the subject of ‘Morbidity and Health Care’. Apart from this subject, surveys were also undertaken separately on ‘Household Consumer Expenditure’ and ‘Employment and Unemployment’. In the survey on Morbidity and Health Care, the following main aspects were covered:

(i) Morbidity and utilisation of health care services including immunisation and maternity care,

(ii) Problems of aged persons, and

(iii) Expenditure of the households for availing the health care services.

The object of the present survey was essentially to study the benefits derived by various sections of the population from investments and outlays made by the Government, as well as by the private sector in the fields of health and get an estimate of expenditure incurred by households to avail health care services including immunization and maternity care.

The data were collected from a sample of households by the interview method. A set of probing questions was put to as many individual members of a selected household as possible to ascertain whether they had suffered from any ailment during the reference period and whether they had taken any medical treatment for it. As far as possible, efforts were made to collect information relating to ailments of each household member from the member themselves. But in spite of the best efforts, some other person of the household might have provided this information, especially for the children and the aged persons in the household. Efforts were made to interview all the adult male members of each sample household, personally. For the children, particularly the young, attempts were made to get the required information from their mothers.

The enquiry on morbidity was conducted with a reference period of 15 days. All spells of ailment suffered by each member, both present as well as the deceased, of the sample household, during the 15 days preceding the date of enquiry, whether or not the patient was hospitalised for treatment, were covered in the survey. For hospitalised treatment, however, information was collected for every event of hospitalisation of a member, whether living or deceased at the time of survey, during the 365 days preceding the date of enquiry.

The schedule on morbidity and health care (Schedule 25.0) framed for the 60th round consists of 13 blocks.

Topics

Topic	Vocabulary	URI
Labor Markets	World Bank	http://www.surveynetwork.org/toolkit

Keywords

Employment & Unemployment, Indebtedness of rural labour, Usual principal activity, Usual subsidiary activity, Time disposition during the week, Migration, NSS 60th Round, Schedule 25, January 2004 - June 2004

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

The entire area of the country was covered with the exception of some interior areas of Nagaland and Andaman & Nicobar Islands, and Leh (Ladakh) and Kargil districts of Jammu & Kashmir.

Universe

The survey used the interview method of data collection from a sample of randomly selected households and members of the household

Producers and Sponsors

Primary Investigator(s)

Name	Affiliation
National Sample Survey Office	M/o Statistcs and Programme Implementation(MOSPI),Government of India (GOI)

Other Producer(s)

Name	Affiliation	Role
Survey Design Reearch Division	National Sample Survey Office	Questionnaire Desgn, Sampling methodology,Survey Reports
Field Operations Division	National Sample Survey Office	Field Work
Data Processing Division	National Sample Survey Office	Data Processing
Computer Centre	M/o Statistcs and Programme Implementation(MOSPI),Government of India (GOI)	Data Dissemination

Funding

Name	Abbreviation	Role
M/o Statistics & Programme Implementation, GOI	MOSPI

Other Acknowledgements

Name	Affiliation	Role
Governing council and Working Group	GOI	Finalisation of survey study and Questionnaire

Metadata Production

Metadata Produced By

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation	Role
Computer Centre	MOSPI, CC	M	Documentation of the study

Date of Metadata Production

2012-12-30

DDI Document Version

Version 1.0 (December 2012)

DDI Document ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-60th-Sch25-2004