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

A dwelling unit is considered to be 'owned' by the sample household if permanent heritable possession with or without the right to transfer the title is vested in a member or members of the household. Dwelling units in owner-like possession under long term lease or assignment is also considered as owned. If the sample household has the right of permanent heritable possession of the dwelling unit with or without the right to transfer the title, such dwelling units will be considered as 'freehold' and code 1 will be recorded. Dwelling units held under special conditions such that the holder does not possess the title of ownership of the dwelling unit but the right for long term possession of the dwelling unit (e.g., dwelling units possessed under perpetual lease, hereditary tenure and long term lease for 30 years or more) will be considered as being 'leasehold' and for such type of dwelling units code 2 will be considered. If the dwelling unit, in which the sample household lives, is provided by an employer to a member of the sample household, such dwelling units will be considered as 'employer quarter' and code 3 will be assigned. If the dwelling is taken on rent, by the sample household, which is payable at monthly, quarterly or any other periodic intervals or on lease, for a period of less than 30 years, it will be treated as a hired dwelling. It may be noted that a hired dwelling unit may be free of rent also. If the sample household had taken the dwelling unit in rent with written contract with its owner, for such dwelling unit, code 4 will be entered. On the other hand, if the sample household lives in a hired dwelling unit without a written contract with the owner of the dwelling unit, code 5 will be entered for such dwelling unit. Households living more or less regularly, under bridges, in pipe, etc., in purely temporary flimsy improvisations built by the roadside (which are liable to be removed any moment), are considered to have no dwellings and for such households code 6 will be recorded against this item. Code 9 will be entered in all other types of possession of the dwelling unit (e.g., encroached one).