India - Household Consumer Expenditure, NSS 58th Round, Schedule 1, July 2002 - December 2002

Outline of Sample Design:
A stratified multi-stage design was adopted for the conduct of survey of NSS 58th round. The first-stage units were census villages (panchayat wards for Kerala) in the rural sector and the NSSO Urban Frame Survey (UFS) blocks in the urban sector. The ultimate stage units were households in both the sectors.

Sampling Frame for First-Stage Units:
For the rural sector, the list of Census 1991 villages (panchayat wards for Kerala) and Census 1981 villages for J & K constituted the sampling frame.
For the urban sector, the list of latest available Urban Frame Survey (UFS) blocks was considered as the sampling frame.

Stratification
Rural sector:
Two special strata were formed as given below at the State/ UT level on the basis of Population Census 1991 viz.
Stratum 1: all FSUs with population between 0 to 50, and
Stratum 2: FSUs with population more than 15,000

Urban sector:
In the urban sector, stratum was formed within each NSS region on the basis of size class of towns as per Census 1991 town population except the towns, which were 27 in number,with population more than one million.

Total sample size (FSUs):
A total number of 8338 and 9076 first-stage units were selected for survey in the Central and State samples respectively.
Two different weights have been provided in each file in the data set. Details are as follows:-

1. Weight for each sub sample is stored in the variable name : Wgt_SubSample
2. Combined subsample weight is stored in the variable name : Wgt_Combined