NavGeneral InfoEmail Print Provider Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (India)Microdata access: Request Geography India (IND) Coverage type Country Time period covered 07/2002 - 12/2002 Series or system India National Sample Survey (NSS) Data type Survey: CommunityCross-sectionalHouseholdInterviewNationally representativeSample registrationSubnationally representativeUrban-rural representative Summary The National Sample Survey (NSS) is a national socioeconomic sample survey conducted in yearly rounds with a cycle of rotating topics. The 58th Round (July to December 2002) included surveys on household consumption, housing conditions, conditions of slums, village facilities, and a profile of disability in India. Samples were as follows: 18,687 rural and 13,982 urban households for the consumer expenditure survey, 97,882 households for the housing conditions survey, 692 slums, 4646 villages, and 45,571 rural and 24,731 urban households for the disability surveys. The surveys exclude geographically remote villages in Jammu & Kashmir, Nagaland, and Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Keywords Alcohol use, Assets, Burns, Cancers, Cataracts, Cleft lip and cleft palate, Community health clinics, Cooking fuels, Diarrheal diseases, Diet, Disability, Domestic migration, Education, Education expenditures, Electricity, Employment, Family composition, Family size, Financial assistance for health, Food expenditures, Glaucoma, Health care use, Hearing aids, Hearing loss, Hospitals, Household air pollution, Household expenditures, Household heat, Housing, Housing conditions, Housing materials, Idiopathic intellectual disability, Injuries, Internet, Land ownership, Leprosy, Limited mobility, Marital status, Mass media, Mental and behavioral disorders, Mobility aids, Musculoskeletal diseases, Neurological conditions, Occupational injuries, Occupations, Orthopedic devices, Paralysis, Personal health expenditures, Pharmacies, Polio, Private health facilities, Private social assistance, Public health facilities, Public social assistance, Religion, Road traffic injuries, Roads, Rubella, Sanitation, School enrollment, Schools, Sense organ diseases, Sensory aids, Social class, Stroke, Taxes, Tobacco smoking, Transportation, Tuberculosis, Vision loss, Waste disposal, Water supply Citation Contributors Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (India) Publisher Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (India) Publication year 2003 Suggested citation Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (India). India National Sample Survey Round 58 2002. New Delhi, India: Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (India), 2003. GHDx Entry last modified on: Jul 20, 2022