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

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-50Rnd-Sch1.0-1993-94

Year

1993 - 1994

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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Aug 22, 2015

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Type of Structure (B12_q5)
File: Blocks 1,2,3,10,11,12,13_Household characteristics

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 115354
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

What is the type of structure of the dwelling? Is it pucca, semi pucca or katchcha?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Pucca	55508	48.1%
2	Semi pucca	33795	29.3%
3	Katchcha	25772	22.3%
9	Not reported	279	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

The structures have been classified into ;three categories, viz. pucca, semi-pucca and katcha on the basis of the materials used for construction. Entry against this item is to made in codes. the codes are : pucca - 1, semi-pucca - 2, katcha - 3.

A katcha structure is one whose walls and roofs are made of mud, bamboo, grass, leaves, reeds, thatch or unbrunt bricks. a pucca structure is one whose walls and roof are made of burnt bricks, stone, cement concreat, jack board (cement - plastered reeds), mosaic, tiles or timber. Tiles galvanized as tin or asbestos cement sheets used in construction of roofs will be regarded as pucca material. A semi-pucca structure is one of which either the of or the walls, but not both, is made exclusively of pucca materials like burnt bricks, stones, cement, concrete or timber.