Human Development in India - NCAER

214 human development in indiaterritories of India, with the exception of Andaman, Nicobar,and Lakshadweep islands. These households are spread across33 states and union territories, 384 districts, 1,503 villagesand 971 urban blocks, located in 276 towns and cities.Districtwise coverage for total, rural, and urban sample isshown in Figures AI.1, AI.2 and AI.3.These 41,554 households include 215,754 individuals.Statewise distribution of sampled households and individualsis presented in Table AI.1.Villages and urban blocks (comprising of 150–200households) formed the primary sampling unit (PSU) fromwhich the households were selected. Urban and rural PSUswere selected using a different design. In order to draw arandom sample of urban households, all urban areas ina state were listed in the order of their size with numberof blocks drawn from each urban area allocated based onprobability proportional to size. Once the numbers of blocksfor each urban area were determined, the enumerationblocks were selected randomly with help from the RegistrarGeneral of India. From these Census Enumeration Blocksof about 150–200 households, a complete household listingwas conducted and household samples of 15 households perblock were selected.The rural sample contains about half the households thatwere interviewed initially by NCAER in 1993–4 in a surveytitled Human Development Profile of India (HDPI), 1 andthe other half of the samples were drawn from both districtssurveyed in HDPI as well as from the districts located in thestates and union territories not covered in HDPI. The originalHDPI was a stratified random sample of 33,230 households,1Shariff (1999).Figure AI.1 India Human Development Survey 2005, District Coverage—Urban and Rural SampleSource: IHDS 2004–5.