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[India] National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) 2015-16 - IPUMS Subset

India, 2015 - 2016
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Reference ID
IND_2015_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Aug 15, 2018
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Household has BPL (below poverty line) card (C_BPLCARDHH)

Data file: IND2015-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 554
End: 554
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
58) Does this household have a BPL card?

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
6 Non-resident
7 Don't know
8 Missing
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.

Description

Definition
BPLCARDHH indicates whether the household has a BPL (below poverty line) card issued by a branch of the Indian government. Households possessing a BPL card benefit from various social welfare programs, including access to food and fuel at subsidized rates and free or subsidized health care. BPL cards are distributed based on population-based household surveys on expenditures, ownership of property, and other socio-economic indicators.

Using data on the possession of BPL cards and household wealth quintile scores from the 2005 Indian DHS, researchers have found that a substantial minority of BPL cards are in non-poor households [URL omitted from DDI.] (in the third, fourth, and fifth wealth quintiles). Researchers should therefore exercise caution in equating BPL card ownership with current poverty.

The information in BPLCARDHH is taken from the household record and applies to regular household residents, not temporary visitors. Researchers may wish to exclude visitors using the RESIDENT variable (with visitors coded "2") when women, children, or births are the unit of analysis, and using the HHRESIDENT variable when household members are the unit of analysis.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Material hardship Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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