India - Household Consumer Expenditure: NSS 50th Round, Schedule 1, July 1993 - June 1994

Item 7 : if yes in item 6, type of land owned (home­stead only-1, homestead and other land - 2, other land only - 3) : Homestead of household is defined as the dwelling house of the household together with any courtyard, compound, garden, out-house, place of working, family courtyard, guest-house, shop, workshop/offices for running household enterprises, tanks, wells, latrine, drains and boundary walls which are annexed to the dwelling house. All land coming under homestead is defined as homestead land.

Homestead may constitute only a part of a plot. Some-times gardens,, orchards or plantations, though adjacent to the homestead and lying within the boundary walls, may be located on a clearly distinct piece of land. In such cases, land under garden, orchard or plantation will not be considered as homestead land and will be noted as other land'.

Codes will be recorded against the item depending on the type of land owned. If the household owns only homestead and no other land, the appropriate code will be 1. But, if the house­hold owns some other piece of land along with homestead land, code 2 will be entered against this item. Code 3 will be appli­cable when a household owns a piece of land but not the homestead land.