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Situation Assessment Survey, 2003

India, 2003
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IND_2003_SAS_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS
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National Sample Survey Organization
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  • Study Description
  • Data Description
  • Downloads
  • Identification
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Sampling
  • Data Collection
  • Access policy
  • Disclaimer and copyrights
  • Metadata production

Identification

Survey ID Number
IND_2003_SAS_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS
Title
Situation Assessment Survey, 2003
Country
Name Country code
India IND
Study type
Other Household Survey [hh/oth]
Series Information
The NSSO, since its inception in 1950, has played a major role in providing the socio-economic data needed to formulate a vibrant plan for social and economic development. The National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) took up a special study on Indian farmers and conducted the Situation Assessment Survey (SAS) of Farmers during 2003 in the rural areas as part of the NSS 59th round. The SAS 2003 is the first of its kind to be conducted by NSSO.
Abstract
Millions of farmers in India have made significant contributions in providing food and nutrition to the entire nation, while also providing livelihoods to millions of people in the country. During the past five decades of planned economic development, India has moved from food-shortage and imports to self-sufficiency and exports. Food security and well being of the farmer appears to be major areas of concern of the planners and policy makers of Indian agriculture. In order to have a comprehensive picture of the farming community at the commencement of the third millennium, and to analyze the impact of the transformation induced by public policy, investments and technological change on the farmers' access to resources and income, as well as well-being; the Ministry of Agriculture decided to collect information on Indian farmers through a Situation Assessment Survey (SAS) and entrusted the job of conducting the survey to the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO).

The SAS 2003 is the first of its kind to be conducted by NSSO. Though information on a majority of items to be collected through SAS have been collected in some round or other of NSS, an integrated schedule - Schedule 33, covering some basic characteristics of farming households and their access to basic and modern farming resources was canvassed for the first time in SAS. Moreover, information on consumption of various goods and services in an abridged form were also collected to have an idea about the pattern of consumption expenditure of the farming households.

Schedule 33 was designed for collecting information on aspects relating to farming and other socio-economic characteristics of farming households. The information was collected in two visits to the same set of sample households. The first visit was made during January to August 2003 and the second, during September to December 2003. The survey was conducted in rural areas only. It was canvassed in the Central Sample except for the States of Maharashtra and Meghalaya where it was canvassed in both State and Central samples.
Kind of Data
Sample survey data [ssd]
Unit of Analysis
Households

Scope

Notes
The scope of the Situation Assessment Survey includes:

- Household characteristics
- Demographic and other characteristics of household members (viz., relation to head, sex, age, marital status and general education, nature of work, current weekly status, wage and salary earnings etc).
- Perception of household regarding sufficiency of food
- Perceptions regarding some general aspects of farming
- Characteristics of land possessed during Kharif/Rabi
- Area under irrigation during Kharif/Rabi
- Some characteristics of farming resources used for cultivation during Kharif / Rabi
- Loans and other liabilities payable by the household
- Access to modern agricultural technology
- Purchase and sale of productive assets
- Expenses and receipts (in Rupees) for cultivation (information on expenses incurred towards cultivation and receipts obtained from output and/or value of by-products of the cultivated products)
- Expenses and receipts (in Rupees) for animal husbandry
- Expenses on non-farm business
- Receipts for running non-farm business
- Consumption of food, pan, tobacco and intoxicants
- Consumption of clothing, footwear
- Expenditure on education and medical (institutional) goods and services
- Expenditure on miscellaneous goods and services including medical (non-institutional), rents and taxes
- Expenditure for purchase and construction (including repair and maintenance) of durable goods for domestic use

Coverage

Geographic Coverage
National Coverage

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators
Name Affiliation
National Sample Survey Organization Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India
Producers
Name Affiliation Role
Survey Design Research Division Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation Questonnaire design, sampling methodology and data analysis
Field Operations Division Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation Data collection
Data Processing Division Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation Data processing
Computer Center Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation Dissemination and website hosting
Governing Council National Sample Survey Organization, Government of India Formulation of survey design
Funding Agency/Sponsor
Name Abbreviation Role
Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India MOSPI, GOI Funding

Sampling

Sampling Procedure
A stratified multi-stage sampling design was adopted for the SAS 2003, 59th round. The First Stage Unit (FSU), also known as the primary sampling unit, was the census village in the rural sector and UFS block in the urban sector. The Ultimate Stage Units (USUs) were households in both sectors. Hamlet-group / sub-block constitute the intermediate stage, if these are formed in the selected area.

The list of villages (panchayat wards for Kerala) based on the Population Census of 1991 constituted the sampling frame for FSUs in rural areas, while the latest UFS frame was the sampling frame used for urban areas. For stratification of towns by size class, provisional population of towns as per Census 2001 was used. A detailed description of the sampling strrategy can be found in the estimation procedure document attached in the documentation/external resource.
Weighting
Weights (or multipliers) are given at the end of each record. All records of a household will have same NSS-NSC-MLT figures.

NSS = Bytes 127-129 (3 bytes)
NSC = Bytes 130-132 (3 bytes)
MLT = Bytes 133-142 (10 bytes)

Apply weight (or multipliers) separately for 2 visits as follows :

weight = MLT/200, if NSC > NSS.
= MLT/100, otherwise.

Using this, weight has been computed and posted in each record.

Data Collection

Dates of Data Collection
Start End Cycle
2003-01-01 2003-08-31 Visit 1
2003-09-01 2003-12-31 Visit 2
Data Collection Mode
Face-to-face paper [f2f]

Access policy

Contacts
Name Affiliation Email URL
DDG, Computing Centre Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation [email protected] www.mospi.gov.in
ADG, SDRD Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation www.mospi.gov.in
Confidentiality
The NSSO data are strictly confidential and are to be used only for statistical purposes.
Access conditions
Validated unit level data relating to various survey rounds are available on CD-ROMS which can be obtained from the Deputy Director General, Computer Centre,Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation, East Block No. 10 R.K. Puram, New Delhi-110066 by remitting the price along with packaging and postal charges as well as giving an undertaking duly signed in a specified format.The amount is to be remitted by way of demand draft drawn in favour of Pay & Accounts Officer, Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation, payable at New Delhi.
Citation requirements
NSSO 59th Round Schedule 33 Situation Assessment survey of Farmers 2003.

Disclaimer and copyrights

Disclaimer
The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.

Metadata production

DDI Document ID
DDI_IND_2003_SAS_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS_FAO
Producers
Name Abbreviation Affiliation Role
Office of the Chief Statistician OCS Food and Agriculture Organization Metadata adapted for FAM
Computer Center CC Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation Documentation of the study
DDI Document version
IND_2003_SAS_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS_v01
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