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

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Household Consumption Expenditure

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Jan 17, 2018

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Source Code (B5_q5)

Data file: Block 5_Monthly household expenditure on food and non food items

Overview

Valid: 1492924

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Start: 68

End: 68

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: character

Questions and instructions

Literal question

What was the source of obtaining the item?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	only purchase	1369172	91.7%
2	only home-grown stock	96856	6.5%
3	both purchase and home-grown stock	10391	0.7%
4	only free collection	7934	0.5%
9	others	8571	0.6%

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

Consumption of an item during the last 30 days may be made out of one or more sources mentioned in the preceding para. The source from which the item has been procured and consumed by the household will be recorded in terms of codes. The codes to be used are:

only purchase .............................................. 1 only free collection ... 4
only home-grown stock............................... 2 others ........................ 9
both purchase and home-grown stock ........ 3

Code 3 will be applicable if consumption is made out of both purchase and home-grown stock but not from any other sources. Any other combination of sources will get code 9. Consumption out of transfer receipts or commodities received in exchange of goods and services will also get code 9.

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