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Table H-11

Distribution of households by availability of separate kitchen and type of fuel used for cooking


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.