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At
DELHI UNIVERSITY
(Faculty of Law)
Submitted By
: Rahul Chopra
INTRODUCTION
The expression live-in-relationship in its ordinary sense to mean that two people living together
without intending to establish any kind of permanent relationship between them. This kind of
relationship has emerged primarily out of convenience. Partners in such kind of relationship
initially lack the commitment with each other. The main element that works in such relationship
is compatibility between such partners. Due to modernization and city culture, we are observing
this kind relationship in few parts of Indian society. Different kind of persons may be involved in
such relations. Unmarried man and unmarried woman or married man and unmarried woman or
unmarried man and married woman or persons of same sex may live together.
METHODOLOGY
A field of applied statistics, survey methodology studies the sampling of individual units from
a population and the associated survey data collection techniques, such as questionnaire
construction and methods for improving the number and accuracy of responses to surveys.
Statistical surveys are undertaken with a view towards making statistical inferences about the
population being studied, and this depends strongly on the survey questions used.
Polls about public opinion, public health surveys, market research surveys, government surveys
and censuses are all examples of quantitative research that use contemporary survey
methodology to answer questions about a population. Although censuses do not include a
"sample", they do include other aspects of survey methodology, like questionnaires,
interviewers, and non response follow-up techniques. Surveys provide important information for
all kinds of public information and research fields, e.g., marketing research, psychology, health
professionals and sociology.
According to Instrumentation
In survey research, the instruments that are utilized can be either a questionnaire or
an interview (either structured or unstructured).
1. Questionnaires
Typically, a questionnaire is a paper-and-pencil instrument that is administered to the
respondents. The usual questions found in questionnaires are closed-ended questions, which are
followed by response options. However, there are questionnaires that ask open-ended questions
to explore the answers of the respondents.
Questionnaires have been developed over the years. Today, questionnaires are utilized in
various survey methods, according to how they are given. These methods include the selfadministered, the group-administered, and the household drop-off. Among the three, the selfadministered survey method is often used by researchers nowadays. The self-administered
questionnaires are widely known as the mail survey method. However, since the response rates
related to mail surveys had gone low, questionnaires are now commonly administered online, as
in the form of web surveys.
Advantages: Ideal for asking closed-ended questions; effective for market or consumer
research
2. Interviews
Between the two broad types of surveys, interviews are more personal and probing.
Questionnaires do not provide the freedom to ask follow-up questions to explore the answers of
the respondents, but interviews do.
An interview includes two persons - the researcher as the interviewer, and therespondent as the
interviewee. There are several survey methods that utilize interviews. These are the personal or
face-to-face interview, the phone interview, and more recently, the online interview.
CONCLUSION
Live-in relationships in India have still not received the consent of the majority of people. They
are still considered a taboo to the Indian society. The majority of the people consider it as an
immoral and an improper relationship. At present there is no specific legislation that deals with
concept of live in relationship and the rights of the parties and the children of the live in
partners. It was a very unambiguous concept until the Supreme Court of India took the initiative
and declared that live in relationship though considered immoral but it is not illegal.
Through its various decisions the judiciary has tried to accord legality to the concept and protect
the rights of the parties and the children of live in couples. But at present there is a need to
formulate a law that would clarify the concept. There should be clear provisions with regard to
the time span required to give status to the relationship, registration and rights of parties and
children born out of it. The utmost need of the hour is to secure the future of the children born to
live in couples. The steps taken by the judiciary are indeed welcoming and pragmatic in
approach. Though the live in relations provide the individuals individual freedom but due to the
insecurity it carries it with, there needs to be a law to curtail its disadvantages.