BSSC Field Assistant case studies
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The BSSC Field Assistant (Kshetra Sahayak) recruitment is run by the Bihar Staff Selection Commission to fill field-level survey and support posts in Bihar government departments. It suits candidates with a Bihar school-leaving or intermediate-level education who are comfortable with outdoor survey work, record-keeping and basic reporting, and who want a state government career close to home. The BSSC Field Assistant case studies are 5 cases and about 3,539 words.
1Eighteen Missing Households at Tola-B: Sample Replacement After River Erosion
You are a field assistant attached to a block statistical office in Saharsa district, Bihar. Your sample list contains 120 households spread over four tolas of one gram panchayat, and the survey must be finished in three days.
702 words, about 4 min2Crop-Cutting Experiment: One Bund Plot, One Moisture Reading, One Expectation
You are assisting a crop-cutting experiment on wheat in a block of Nalanda district, Bihar. Four plots of 5 m × 5 m were marked in the selected field.
705 words, about 4 min3Four Water Bottles, One Hot Afternoon: Deciding Which Samples Count
You are collecting drinking-water samples from public handpumps in a fluoride-affected block of Gaya district, Bihar, as part of a field survey. On a 38 °C afternoon you fill four containers: (i) a handpump sample in a rinsed glass bottle brought from the office; (ii) a second sample from the same handpump in an empty mineral-water bottle supplied by a villager; (iii) a sample from a dug well; (iv) a sample left in the jeep since the previous morning.
718 words, about 4 min4Ninety-Six Forms, Ninety-Five IDs: Reconciling Household Schedules
You are reconciling household schedules entered from a survey in a panchayat of Muzaffarpur district, Bihar. The register shows 96 forms issued: 32 in Hamlet 1, 28 in Hamlet 2 and 36 in Hamlet 3.
700 words, about 4 min5The Ambiguous Hindi Item: 'काम' That Means Three Different Things
You are administering a household schedule in Hindi in a village of Bhagalpur district, Bihar. One printed item reads: "आपके परिवार में कितने सदस्य काम करते हैं?" Across the first 30 households, respondents interpreted it in three ways: some counted only paid work outside the home, some counted children's work at home and in the fields, and two counted elderly members who no longer work at all.
714 words, about 4 min