DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-59Rnd-Sch1.0-2003
Household Consumer Expenditure, Jan 2003 - Dec 2003
NSS 59th Round
HCES 2003 : NSS 59th Round
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| India | IND |
Socio-Economic/Monitoring Survey [hh/sems]
The National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) has been set up by the Government of India in 1950 to collect socio-economic data employing scientific sampling methods. The NSSO conducts regular consumer expenditure surveys as part of its "rounds", each round being normally of a year's duration and covering more than one subject of study. The surveys are conducted through household interviews, using a random sample of households covering practically the entire geographical area of the country. Surveys on consumer expenditure are being conducted quinquennially on a large sample of households from the 27th round (October 1972 - September 1973) onwards. Apart from these quinquennial surveys, the NSSO collected information on consumer expenditure from a smaller sample of households since 42nd round (July 1986 - June 1987). Nowadays every round of NSS includes a consumer expenditure survey (CES), giving rise to an annual series of consumption data. The National Sample Survey (NSS) started its fifty-ninth round from 1st January 2003. Fifty-ninth round of NSS is earmarked for collection of data on land and livestock holdings, debt and investment and situation assessment for Indian farmers, besides that on household consumer expenditure and employment-unemployment. The field operations of the survey commenced on 1st January 2003 and continued up to 31st December 2003. In order to reduce the recall error, the total information relating to each sample household was collected in two visits. The first visit (January to August) broadly covered the Kharif season of the agricultural year 2002 - 2003 and the second (September to December) the corresponding Rabi season. The household consumer expenditure schedule used for the survey collected information on quantity and value of household consumption with a reference period of "last 30 days" for some items of consumption and "last 365 days" for some less frequently purchased items. To minimise recall errors, a very detailed item classification was, as usual, adopted to collect information. The schedule also collected some other household particulars including age, sex and educational level of each household member.
The field work for the survey was conducted, as usual, by the Field Operations Division of the Organisation. The collected data were processed by the Data Processing Division of NSSO and tabulated by the Computer Centre of Department of Statistics. The reports have been prepared by Survey Design & Research Division (SDRD) of NSSO under the guidance of the Governing Council, NSSO.
The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) conducts regular consumer expenditure surveys as part of its "rounds", each round being normally of a year's duration and covering more than one subject of study. The surveys are conducted through household interviews, using a random sample of households covering practically the entire geographical area of the country. Surveys on consumer expenditure are being conducted quinquennially on a large sample of households from the 27th round (October 1972 - September 1973) onwards. Apart from these quinquennial surveys, the NSSO collected information on consumer expenditure from a smaller sample of households since 42nd round (July 1986 - June 1987). Nowadays every round of NSS includes a consumer expenditure survey (CES), giving rise to an annual series of consumption data. The National Sample Survey (NSS) started its fifty-ninth round from 1st January 2003. Fifty-ninth round of NSS is earmarked for collection of data on land and livestock holdings, debt and investment and situation assessment for Indian farmers, besides that on household consumer expenditure and employment-unemployment. The field operations of the survey commenced on 1st January 2003 and continued up to 31st December 2003. In order to reduce the recall error, the total information relating to each sample household was collected in two visits. The first visit (January to August) broadly covered the Kharif season of the agricultural year 2002 - 2003 and the second (September to December) the corresponding Rabi season. The household consumer expenditure schedule used for the survey collected information on quantity and value of household consumption with a reference period of "last 30 days" for some items of consumption and "last 365 days" for some less frequently purchased items. To minimise recall errors, a very detailed item classification was, as usual, adopted to collect information. The schedule also collected some other household particulars including age, sex and educational level etc. of each household member.
Sample survey data [ssd]
Randomly selected households based on sampling procedure and members of the household
V1.0; Re-organised anonymised dataset for public distribution.
2012-04-02
The NSSO surveys on consumer expenditure aim to measure the household consumer expenditure in quantitative terms disaggregated by various household characteristics.
The data for this survey is collected in the NSS Schedule 1.0 used for household consumer expenditure. For this round, the schedule had 9 blocks.
Blocks 0, 1 and 2 - are similar to the ones used in usual NSS rounds. These are used to record identification of sample households and particulars of field operations.
Block-3: Household characteristics like, household size, principal industry-occupation, social group, land possessed and cultivated, type of dwelling etc. are recorded in this block.
Block-4: In this Block the detailed demographic particulars including age, sex, educational level, marital status, number of meals usually taken in a day etc. are recorded.
Block-5: In this block cash purchase and consumption of food, pan, tobacco and intoxicants during the last 30 days are recorded.
Block-5.1: In this block consumption of fuel & light during the last 30 days is recorded.
Block-6: Consumption of clothing, bedding, etc. during the last 365 days is recorded in this block.
Block-7 : Consumption of footwear during the last 365 days is recorded in this block.
Block-8.1 : Expenditure on education and medical (institutional) goods and services during the last 365 days is recorded in Block 9.
Block-8.2 : Expenditure on miscellaneous goods and services including medical (non-institutional), rents and taxes during the last 30 days has been recorded in this block.
Block-9 : Expenditure for purchase and construction (including repair and maintenance) of durable goods for domestic use during the last 365 days has been recorded in this block.
The survey covered the whole of the Indian Union except (i) Leh (Ladakh) and Kargil districts of Jammu & Kashmir, (ii) interior villages of Nagaland situated beyond five kilometres of the bus route and (iii) villages in Andaman and Nicobar Islands which remain inaccessible throughout the year.
The survey used the interview method of data collection from a sample of randomly selected households and members of the household.
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| National Sample Survey Office | M/o Statistics and Programme Implementation(MOSPI),Government of India (GOI) |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Survey Design Reearch Division | National Sample Survey Office | Questionnaire Desgn, Sampling methodology,Survey Reports Questionnaire Desgn, Sampling methodology,Survey Reports Questionnaire Design, Sampling methodology, Survey Reports |
| Field Operations Division | National Sample Survey Office | Field Work |
| Data Processing Division | National Sample Survey Office | Data Processing |
| Computer Centre | M/o Statistcs and Programme Implementation(MOSPI),Government of India (GOI) | Tabulation and Dissemination |
| Name | Abbreviation |
|---|---|
| M/o Statistics & Programme Implementation, GOI | MOSPI |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Governing council and Working Group | GOI | Finalisation of survey study |
Broad Sample Design:
A stratified multi-stage design has been adopted for the 59th round survey. The first stage unit (FSU) is the census village in the rural sector and UFS block in the urban sector. The ultimate stage units (USUs) are households in both the sectors. Hamlet-groups / sub-blocks constitute the intermediate stage whenever these are formed in the selected FSU.
Sampling Frame for First Stage Units:
For rural areas, the list of villages (panchayat wards for Kerala) as per Population Census 1991 and for urban areas the latest UFS frame have been used as sampling frame. For stratification of towns by size class, provisional population of towns as per Census 2001 have been used.
Stratification:
Rural Sector: Two special strata have been formed at the State/ UT level, viz.,
Stratum 1: all FSUs with population between 0 to 50 and
Stratum 2: FSUs with population more than 15,000.
Special stratum 1 was formed whenever at least 50 such FSUs were found in a State/UT. Similarly, special stratum 2 was formed if at least 4 such FSUs were found in a State/UT. Otherwise, such FSUs were merged with the general strata.
Urban Sector: In the urban sector, strata have been formed within each NSS region on the basis of size class of towns as per Population Census 2001. The stratum numbers and their composition (within each region) are given below.
stratum 1 : all towns with population less than 50,000
stratum 2 : all towns with population 50,000 or more but less than 2 lakhs
stratum 3 : all towns with population 2 lakhs or more but less than 10 lakhs
stratum 4, 5, 6,... : each city with population 10 lakhs or more
The stratum numbers remained as above even if, in some regions, some of the strata did not exist.
Formation of Second Stage Strata and allocation of households for schedule 1.0:
Schedule 1.0: Consumer Expenditure Survey: Two SSS are formed:
Rural:
SSS 1: households possessing land < Y
SSS 2: households possessing land = Y
Urban:
SSS 1: households belonging to MPCE classes 1, 2 and 3
SSS 2: households belonging to MPCE class 4
Out of the four households selected for sch. 1.0, two households are covered in visit 1 and two in visit 2.
Sample households for each type of schedule are selected by SRSWOR in each SSS of each hg/sb.
There was no deviation from the original sampling design.
Two different weights have been provided in each file in the data set. Details are as follows:-
Summary description of the schedule 1.0 on consumer expenditure is given below.
Blocks 0, 1 and 2 - are similar to the ones used in usual NSS rounds. These are used to record identification of sample households and particulars of field operations.
Block-3: Household characteristics like, household size, principal industry-occupation, social group, land possessed and cultivated, type of dwelling etc. are recorded in this block.
Block-4: In this Block the detailed demographic particulars including age, sex, educational level, marital status, number of meals usually taken in a day etc. are recorded.
Block-5: In this block cash purchase and consumption of food, pan, tobacco and intoxicants during the last 30 days are recorded.
Block-5.1: In this block consumption of fuel & light during the last 30 days is recorded.
Block-6: Consumption of clothing, bedding, etc. during the last 365 days is recorded in this block.
Block-7 : Consumption of footwear during the last 365 days is recorded in this block.
Block-8.1 : Expenditure on education and medical (institutional) goods and services during the last 365 days is recorded in Block 9.
Block-8.2 : Expenditure on miscellaneous goods and services including medical (non-institutional), rents and taxes during the last 30 days has been recorded in this block.
Block-9 : Expenditure for purchase and construction (including repair and maintenance) of durable goods for domestic use during the last 365 days has been recorded in this block.
| Name | Affiliation | Abbreviation |
|---|---|---|
| NSSO(FOD) | MOSPI | NSS(FOD) |
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Centre | M/O Statistics and Programme Implementation | http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/site/home.aspx | nssodata@gmail.com |
Validated unit level data relating to various survey rounds are available on CD-ROMS which can be obtained from the Deputy Director General, Computer Centre, M/O Statistics and PI, East Block No. 10 R.K. Puram, New Delhi-110066 by remitting the price along with packaging and postal charges as well as giving an undertaking duly signed in a specified format.The amount is to be remitted by way of demand draft drawn in favour of Pay & Accounts Officer, Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation, payable at New Delhi.
The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
| Name | Affiliation | URL |
|---|---|---|
| ADG, SDRD , NSSO | M/O Statistics & PI, G/O India | http://mospi.gov.in/ |
| DDG, Computer Centre | M/O Statistics & PI, G/O India | http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/site/home.aspx |
DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-59Rnd-Sch1.0-2003
| Name | Abbreviation | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Centre | MOSPI, CC | M/O Statistics & Programme Implementation | Documentation of the study |
2012-04-02
Version 1.0 (April 2012)
