Level of presentation: India / State / District / Tahsil / Town
Corresponding
Table of 1991 Census: Table H-6
This
table gives the distribution of households by availability of
separate kitchen within the house and the type of fuel used for
cooking. This table excludes institutional households for which
the information on availability of separate kitchen and type of
fuel used for cooking was not collected. The classification of
households relating to availability of kitchen is shown in four
categories viz., separately available, separately not available,
cooking in open and no cooking. If the available kitchen was
independent of any other use within the house, it was treated as
‘available’ and if it was not available as an exclusive room
then it was considered as ‘not available’. If cooking was
done in an unenclosed space within the house or its precincts,
the space used for cooking was not treated as a kitchen and in
this case ‘cooking in open’ was recorded. In case due to
exigencies of work or any other reason the household was not
cooking in the census house, ‘no cooking’ response was
recorded. The types of fuel used for cooking presented in this
table are firewood; crop residue; cowdung cake; coal, lignite,
charcoal; kerosene; LPG; electricity; biogas and any other fuel.
Firewood includes woods of different types such as timber,
branches and trunk of trees and shrubs, etc.
As for crop residue, typical examples of this fuel are
crop produce such as cotton or pulse stems, paddy or wheat
straw, etc. The number of households with no cooking has been
separately shown. For reckoning the type of fuel, the fuel most
commonly used by the household has been considered. The data in
this table are presented for total, rural and urban areas
separately.
Tahsil
and town level data are available only in electronic format.
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