Hand
Book of Housing Statistics, 2003Publications
NBO brings out
various publications on the basis of data collected from diverse sources. The
major publications of NBO are :
Hand
Book of Housing Statistics, 2003
Metropolitan Housing
Statistics-2002
Building Material
Prices and Wages of Labour, 1997
Prominent Facts on Housing,
1997
Housing Statistics – An Overview, 1999
Housing
Statistics – An overview, 2006 (Available on CD Costing Rs. 200/-)
Compendium
on Urban Poverty and Urban Slums in under preparation.
Handbook
of Housing Statistics, 2006 in under preparation.
Other ocassional reports on surveys conducted on socio-economic
aspects of housing from time to time.
Handbook
of Housing Statistics:
The
publication is based mainly on the data generated as part of the Census
operations.
The publication contains
data relating to housing stock, housing conditions, housing amenities, housing
situation in metropolitan cities, housing situation in slums, tenure status and
plan investment. Under the housing stock information on population, households,
housing stock, occupied residential houses, distribution of census houses, value
of residential buildings etc. are given. Housing conditions covers information
on average number of persons per room, distribution of households by size of
dwelling units, distribution of households by predominant material of wall and
roof in rural and urban areas separately, housing shortage, houseless households
etc. Housing conditions and facilities provides information concerning drinking
water facilities, source of drinking water, availability of toilet facilities in
rural and urban areas, type of toilet facilities, availability of electricity
separately in rural and urban areas, primary source of energy etc.
The basic
purpose of bringing out the handbook is to provide information relating to
housing statistics emanating from various primary sources in one compendium,
thus making it easier for researchers and policy formulators.
Building
Material Prices and Wages of Labour:
The
data for the publication is collected quarterly at the instance of NBO by the
State governments under the three tier scheme.
The publication
contains data on selected building materials and wages of labour in respect of
44 centers spread throughout the country. The data is presented separately for
four quarters for a particular year. In order to provide a comparative picture
of the variations in the prices and wage rates annual average prices and wage
rates for the six preceding years is also given.
The publication is useful for the public sector agencies engaged in providing housing and or related services, individual, builders; persons engaged in related research, persons in the real estate business by helping them make an assessment of the likely cost of the project.
Current
Housing and Building Activities in Private and Public Sectors:
Data
for the publications emanates from the data got collected by NBO under its three
tier scheme.
The publications
contain information on building activity in different states, type of
construction such as residential, non-residential, commercial, institutional,
industrial as also information on number of rooms, new construction, addition to
the floor area etc. and in case of public sector the data is also presented
agencies viz. CPWD, MES, P&T, Railways, PSU’s etc.
The publication is
useful for the policy framers and agencies active in the building and related
fields and persons engaged in research.
The publication contains information on various aspects of population,
housing statistics including housing conditions, amenities, infrastructure
building permits and completion certificates issued etc. in respect of
Metropolitan Cities as generated by different agencies.
The
publication is useful as a reference document.
Housing
Statistics – An Overview1999:
It gives a comprehensive overview of statistical information by
providing time series data on various aspects of housing such as housing stock,
housing conditions, housing related infrastructure, housing finance, prices of
building materials, wages of building labour, investment in housing, capital
formation etc. The publication is useful as a reference document, valuable for
policy formulation, analytical study and research work on housing and related
matters.
A request for publications can be placed before the
Director NBO G-Wing,
Nirman Bhawan,
New Delhi
-11 00 11.