India Human Development Survey- II Income and Social Capital Questionnaire: Household Farm and Animals

1. Who is the primary decision maker about farm matters in your house?

Response Options:
____[NAME]

2. How did you acquire most of the land that you own?

Response Options:
Inherited / Gifted to male members - 1
Inherited / Gifted to female members - 2
Undivided family land - 3
Purchased - 4
Received from govt. / Panchayat - 5
Others - 6
No land owned - 9

3. If land is in the name of a household member, who is that?

Response Options:
____[NAME]

4. Does this household own any –

• Tubewells?
• Electric pumps?
• Diesel Pumps?
• Bullock Cart / Dunlop cart?
• Tractor / Tiller?
• Thresher?
• Hand / Power Sprayer?
• Chaff Cutter?
• Drip irrigation?
• Sprinkler set?
• Seed Drill?

Response Options:
No - 0
Yes - Record Number

5. How much money did you spend buying new equipment last year?
6. How much money did you earn selling / renting out water, equipment or animals last year?
7. Do you have any other income from agriculture, such as from selling trees last year? If so, how much?

Response Options:
____[RUPEES]

8. Overall last 12 months (3 seasons) production was average, better than average, worse than average?

Response Options:
Average - 1
Better than average - 2
Worse than average - 3

9. Who is the primary person responsible for taking care of animals in your household?

Response Options:
____[NAME]

Not Applicable

PRIMARY CITATION:

Desai, S., & Vanneman, R. (2015). India Human Development Survey-II (IHDS-II). Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. https://doi. org/10.3886/ICPSR36151. v6.