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of presentation: India / State / District / Tahsil / Town
New Table in 2001 Census
This
appendix table gives the distribution of households by the type
of census houses occupied by them. The structures of census
houses occupied by the households for fully and partly
residential purposes have been classified into permanent,
semi-permanent and temporary depending on the types of material
used in the construction of wall and roof. Temporary structures
are further classified into serviceable and non-serviceable. The
criteria adopted for their classification is given as under:
Permanent
Houses
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Houses,
the walls and roof of which are made of permanent
materials. The material of walls can be any one from the
following, namely, galvanized iron sheets or other metal
sheets, asbestos sheets, burnt bricks, stones or concrete.
Roof may be made of from any one of the following
materials, namely, tiles, slate, galvanized iron sheets,
metal sheets, asbestos sheets, bricks, stones or concrete.
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Temporary
Houses
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Houses
in which both walls and roof are made of materials, which
have to be replaced frequently. Walls may be made from any
one of the following temporary materials, namely, grass,
thatch, bamboo, plastic, polythene, mud, unburnt bricks or
wood. Roof may be made from any one of the following
temporary materials, namely, grass, thatch, bamboo, wood,
mud, plastic or polythene.
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Semi-permanent
houses
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Houses
in which either the wall or the roof is made of permanent
material and the other is made of temporary material.
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Serviceable temporary
houses
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Temporary
houses in which wall is made of mud, unburnt bricks or
wood.
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Non-serviceable temporary
houses
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Temporary
houses in which wall is made of grass, thatch, bamboo,
etc., plastic or polythene.
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The
census houses occupied by the institutional households are not
considered for generating this appendix table. The data in this
appendix table are presented for total, rural and urban areas
separately.
Tahsil
and town level data are given only in electronic format only. |