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The National Statistical Office (NSO), Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation has conducted the latest survey on All India Debt & Investment Survey during the period January –December, 2019 as a part of 77 ^th round of National Sample Survey (NSS). Prior to this, the survey was carried out in NSS 26 ^th round (1971-72), 37 ^th round (1981-82), 48 ^th round (1992), 59 ^th round (2003), and 70 ^th round (2013).

The main objective of the survey on Debt & Investment was to collect basic quantitative information on the assets and liabilities of the households as on 30.6.2018. Besides, the survey gathered information on the amount of capital expenditure incurred by the households during the Agricultural Year 2018-19 (July-June), under different heads, like residential buildings, farm business and non-farm business.

The present survey was spread over the entire Indian Union and data were collected in two visits (Visit1: January-August, 2019 and Visit 2: September - December, 2019) from the same set of samplehouseholds. The survey was spread over 5,940 villages covering 69,455 households in the rural sectorand 3,995 blocks covering 47,006 households in the urban sector.

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