India - Housing Condition Survey: NSS 65th Round, Schedule 1.2, July 2008- June 2009

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-65Rnd-Sch1dot2-2008-09

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

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Aug 03, 2016

Last modified

Sep 02, 2016

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Region (Region)
File: Block-1-2-Identification-household-records

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 153518
Invalid: 0

Definition

States have been divided into regions by grouping contiguous districts similar in respect of population density and crop pattern. In Gujarat, however, some districts have been split for the purpose of region formation, considering the location of dry areas and the distribution of tribal population in the state. The compositions of the regions are given in Appendix-II of instruction manual

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Region code

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Region-1	56893	37.1%
2	Region-2	38049	24.8%
3	Region-3	25828	16.8%
4	Region-4	16226	10.6%
5	Region-5	14410	9.4%
6	Region-6	2112	1.4%

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.