India - Urban Slums Survey: NSS 69th Round, Schedule 0.21, July 2012 - December 2012

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-69Rnd-Sch-0dot21-2012

Year

2012

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

Sponsor(s)

M/o Statistics & Programme Implementation, GOI - MOSPI -

Collection(s)

National Sample Survey

Metadata

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Aug 05, 2016

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Distance Govt primary school(b3_q19)
File: Block-3 - Characteristics of slum(s) lying wholly or partly within the sample

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 881
Invalid: 0

Definition

The distance from the nearest government school having primary classes and nearest government hospital/ health centre will be recorded respectively in code. 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. The codes to be used are:
less than 0.5 km …….1
0.5 to 1 km ………... 2
1 to 2 km ………….. 3
2 to 5 km ………….. 4
5 km or more ……… 5
If the facility is available within the slum, code 1 will be given.

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Distance from nearest government primary school & distance
from nearest government hospital/ health centre, etc.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	less than 0.5 km	535	60.7%
2	0.5 to 1 km	230	26.1%
3	1 to 2 km	89	10.1%
4	2 to 5 km	25	2.8%
5	5 km or more	2	0.2%

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.