India - Village Facilities Survey : NSS 58th Round, Schedule 3.1, July 2002 - December 2002

MoSPI-NSS
Reference ID IND-NSSO-58Rnd-Sch3.1-VF-2002
Year 2002
Country India
Producer(s) NSSO
Sponsor(s) Ministry of Statiistics and PI - MOSPI, Government of India -
Collection(s)
National Sample Survey
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Primary health centre (Bl4_q17)
File: Village_facility
Overview
Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1
Valid cases: 4643
Invalid: 0
Definition
Primary Health Centre: Primary health centre (PHC) is the first contact point between a village community and the medical officer. It has a medical officer and other para-medical staff. It is run by the Government and usually has in-patient and out-patient facilities. A PHC has jurisdiction over 6 sub-centres and serves about 30,000 people in the plains and 20,000 in hilly/ tribal areas.
Questions and instructions
Universe
Distance from nearest facility ?
Literal question
How far is facility from primary health centre
Categories
ValueCategoryCases
1 within village 908 19.6%
2 outside village: less than 2 km 460 9.9%
3 2 to 5 km 1222 26.3%
4 5 to 10 km 1102 23.7%
5 10 km or more 948 20.4%
9 NR 3 0.1%
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
distance should be coded as :
within village – 1; outside village: less than 2 km – 2, 2 to 5 km – 3,
5 to 10 km – 4, 10 km or more – 5

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