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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Whether Hire-purchase? (B9_q5)

Data file: Block 9_Household expenditure on durables

Overview

Valid: 467263

Invalid: 0

Minimum: None

Maximum: None

Mean: None

Standard deviation: None

Type: Discrete

Width: 1

Format: character

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Whether the first hand purchase item was hire-purchased?

Interviewer instructions

If an item of durable goods is purchased on instalment payment and the expenditure made on it during the reference period consists of one or more such instalment payments, code 1 will be recorded in this column. Otherwise i.e., when durable goods are purchased and entire amount is paid during the reference period, code 2 will be recorded in this column.

Note: If more than one of a particular item are purchased during the reference period and some of them are purchased on hire-purchase basis and the remaining are purchased outright, then code 1 will be recorded in this column.

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