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

India
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Reference ID
DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-59Rnd-Sch1.0-2003
Producer(s)
National Sample Survey Office
Collections
Household Consumption Expenditure
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
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Jan 17, 2018
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Household Size (B3_q1)

Data file: Blocks 3,10_Household Characteristics

Overview

Valid: 41013
Invalid: 0
Minimum: 1.0
Maximum: 49.0
Mean: 5.190159217808987
Standard deviation: 2.9835366571566335
Type: Discrete
Width: 2
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
How many members are there in the household?
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 2517
6.1%
2 3644
8.9%
3 5066
12.4%
4 7635
18.6%
5 7140
17.4%
6 5121
12.5%
7 3396
8.3%
8 2103
5.1%
9 1373
3.3%
10 936
2.3%
11 578
1.4%
12 431
1.1%
13 268
0.7%
14 225
0.5%
15 152
0.4%
16 102
0.2%
17 92
0.2%
18 51
0.1%
19 55
0.1%
20 32
0.1%
21 19
0%
22 21
0.1%
23 17
0%
24 8
0%
25 9
0%
26 6
0%
27 2
0%
28 3
0%
29 2
0%
30 3
0%
32 1
0%
35 3
0%
42 1
0%
49 1
0%
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 size of the sample household i.e., the total number of persons normally residing together (i.e., under the same roof) and taking food from the same kitchen (including temporary stayaways and excluding temporary visitors) will be recorded against this item. This number will be same as the last serial number recorded in column 1 of block 4.
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