Household Consumer Expenditure, Jan 2003 - Dec 2003
NSS 59th Round

India

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DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-59Rnd-Sch1.0-2003

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National Sample Survey Office

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Household Consumption Expenditure

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Jan 17, 2018

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No. of Meals per day (B4_q15)

Data file: Block 4_Person records

Overview

Valid: 212282

Invalid: 582

Minimum: 0.0

Maximum: 3.0

Mean: 2.4293863822651

Standard deviation: 0.5507403694715548

Type: Discrete

Width: 1

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

How many meals do you usually take in a day?

Categories

Value	Cases
0	2024	1%
1	116	0.1%
2	114827	54.1%
3	95315	44.9%

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Interviewer instructions

The number of meals consumed by a person is usually reported as 2 or 3. In rare cases, one may come across a person who may be taking food only once in a day or more than three times a day. While in the former case the number of meals for the person will be 1 per day, in the latter case, however, only 3 should be entered. That is, in this column, the recorded number of meals taken in a day, even if it is reported to be higher, should not exceed 3. A breast-fed baby does not directly share the food consumed by members of the household. Hence for such babies the entry in this column will be '0'.

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Household Consumer Expenditure, Jan 2003 - Dec 2003 NSS 59th Round