India - Urban Slums Survey: NSS 65th Round, Schedule 0.21, July 2008- June 2009

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-65Rnd-Sch-0dot21-2008-09

Year

2008 - 2009

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

Created on

Aug 03, 2016

Last modified

Sep 02, 2016

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Distance-hospital (B3_q24)
File: Block-3-Particulars-slum-Records

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 730
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Distance from nearest government hospital / health centre etc.:

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	less than 0.5 km	140	19.2%
2	0.5 to 1 km	188	25.8%
3	1 to 2 km	164	22.5%
4	2 to 5 km	175	24.0%
5	5 km or more	63	8.6%

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 distance from the nearest government hospital / health centre will be recorded in terms of codes. Distance from the nearest facility will be considered if the facility is available to the slum dwellers. The distance will be considered from the centre of the slum.