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

Created on

Aug 03, 2016

Last modified

Sep 02, 2016

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Type of construction (B7_q5)
File: Block-7-Constructions-records

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 15266
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Type of construction

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	New building	3077	20.2%
2	Addition to floor space	2349	15.4%
3	Alteration/improvement/major repair	9840	64.5%

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

For construction of an entirely new building code 1 will be recorded. If extension of existing building results in the increase of floor area, it is to be considered as addition to floor area and code 2 will be recorded for such construction. Any type of remodelling, renovation or major repair work is to be treated as alteration/improvement/major repair and code 3 will be recorded for such constructions.