Interviewer instructions
Items 251 and 258: no. of members with loans outstanding (only loans taken from this enterprise will be considered) and total number of members: Total number of members of the surveyed SHG/co-operative credit society who are having any outstanding loan with the surveyed enterprise as on the date of survey will be entered in this item. Suppose a SHG has 15 members. Of them, 10 members have to repay some loan(s) taken from that SHG as on date of survey. Then entry in item 251 will be 10 and entry in item 258 will be 15.
Item 252 to 257: Each of these items will be used to record the number of members who have not yet fully repaid a particular type of loan (described through that particular item) taken from the surveyed enterprise as on date of survey. So, the sum of item 252 to 257 may not be equal to the entry in item 251. For example, if a member has outstanding loan for both house building and marriage of daughter, s/he will be considered for both items 254 and 256. Different reasons of taking loans and corresponding item numbers are:
252: self-employment activity of self/ household member
253: repayment of other debts
254: meeting household capital expenditure like house building, etc.
255: meeting medical expenses of self/relatives
256: household expenses, including expenses on social functions forietye?ofit and Loss accounts?
257: others
