Level of presentation: India / State / District / Tahsil / Town
New Table in 2001 Census
The
table gives the distribution of census houses that are used for
residence and also those which are used as residence in
combination with other uses by their type of structure. The
structures of census houses 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 classification of census houses by type are
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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This
is a new table that provides the quality of structure of census
houses used for fully and partly residential purposes. The table
excludes the census houses occupied by the institutional
households. 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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