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Household Consumer Expenditure, July 2005 - June 2006
NSS 62nd Round

India, 2005 - 2006
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    Survey ID number

    DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-62Rnd-Sch1.0-2005-06

    Title

    Household Consumer Expenditure, July 2005 - June 2006

    Subtitle

    NSS 62nd Round

    Abbreviation or Acronym

    HCES 2005-06 : NSS 62nd Round

    Country
    Name Country code
    India IND
    Study type

    Socio-Economic/Monitoring Survey [hh/sems]

    Series Information

    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 62nd round survey is the seventeenth in the annual series of surveys of household consumer expenditure. It was conducted during July 2005 to June 2006. Household consumer expenditure is measured as the expenditure incurred by a household on domestic account during a specified period, called reference period. It includes the imputed values of goods and services, which are not purchased but procured otherwise for consumption. In other words, it is the sum total of monetary values of all the items (i.e. goods and services) consumed by the household on domestic account during the reference period. The imputed rent of owner-occupied houses is excluded from consumption expenditure. Any expenditure incurred towards the productive enterprises of the households is also excluded from household consumer expenditure.

    The word "consumption" is used in different senses. The main reason for this is that some items can be used only once while others can be used repeatedly. A household consumer expenditure survey, therefore, needs to assign different meanings to consumption for different items. The NSS traditionally uses three different definitions or approaches to consumption of different items: Consumption approach, Expenditure approach and First-use approach. Items of consumption have been classified into four groups. The Consumption approach is used for Group I, the First-use approach for Group II and the Expenditure approach for Groups III and IV. The four groups of items are:

    Group I: Items of food other than 'cooked meals*', pan, tobacco and intoxicants and fuel and light: Consumption is the actual consumption during the reference period. Both quantity and value of such consumption are collected.

    Group II: Items of clothing and footwear: An item is consumed if it is brought into first use during the reference period. The item may or may not be procured within the reference period. It can be procured through purchase or home production, or as gift or charity. Both quantity and value are collected.

    Group III: Durable goods: Any expenditure incurred on an item for purchase or towards cost of raw materials and services for its construction and repair during the reference period is treated as consumption of the item.

    Group IV: Cooked meals; Miscellaneous goods and services including education, medical, rent, taxes and cesses: Any expenditure incurred on the item during the reference period is treated as consumption of the item. Consumption is recorded in value terms only.

    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.

    Abstract

    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 61st round CES, conducted in 2004-05, was the seventh quinquennial CES. The other CES's, of which the 62nd round survey is one, are referred to collectively as the "annual series" of CES's. The 62nd round survey is the seventeenth in the annual series of surveys of household consumer expenditure. It was conducted during July 2005 to June 2006. Household consumer expenditure is measured as the expenditure incurred by a household on domestic account during a specified period, called reference period. It includes the imputed values of goods and services, which are not purchased but procured otherwise for consumption. In other words, it is the sum total of monetary values of all the items (i.e. goods and services) consumed by the household on domestic account during the reference period. The imputed rent of owner-occupied houses is excluded from consumption expenditure. Any expenditure incurred towards the productive enterprises of the households is also excluded from household consumer expenditure. 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, including 148 items of food, 13 items of fuel, 28 items of clothing, bedding and footwear, 18 items of educational and medical expenses, 52 items of durable goods, and about 85 other items. The schedule also collected some other household particulars including age, sex and educational level etc. of each household member.

    Kind of Data

    Sample survey data [ssd]

    Unit of Analysis

    Randomly selected households based on sampling procedure and members of the household

    Version

    Version Description

    V1.0; Re-organised anonymised dataset for public distribution.

    Version Date

    2012-04-02

    Scope

    Notes

    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 was collected in the NSS Schedule 1.0 used for household consumer expenditure. For this round, the schedule had 12 blocks.

    Blocks 0, 1 and 2 - were similar to the ones used in usual NSS rounds. These were 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. were 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. were recorded.

    Block-5: In this block cash purchase and consumption of food, pan, tobacco and intoxicants during the last 30 days were recorded.

    Block-6: In this block consumption of fuel & light during the last 30 days was recorded.

    Block-7: Consumption of clothing, bedding, etc. during the last 365 days was recorded in this block.

    Block-8 : Consumption of footwear during the last 365 days was recorded in this block.

    Block-9 : Expenditure on education and medical (institutional) goods and services during the last 365 days was recorded in Block 9.

    Block-10 : 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-11 : 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.

    Block-12: Contains the summary of consumer expenditure.

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    The survey covered the whole of the Indian Union except (i) Leh (Ladakh), Kargil, Punch and Rajauri districts of Jammu & Kashmir, (ii) interior villages of Nagaland situated beyond five kilometres of a bus route and (iii) villages in Andaman and Nicobar Islands which remain inaccessible throughout the year.

    Universe

    The survey used the interview method of data collection from a sample of randomly selected households and members of the household.

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    National Sample Survey Office M/o Statistics and Programme Implementation(MOSPI),Government of India (GOI)
    Producers
    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
    Funding Agency/Sponsor
    Name Abbreviation
    M/o Statistics & Programme Implementation, GOI MOSPI
    Other Identifications/Acknowledgments
    Name Affiliation Role
    Governing council and Working Group GOI Finalisation of survey study

    Sampling

    Sampling Procedure

    Sample Design
    A stratified multi-stage design was adopted for the 62nd round survey. The first stage units (FSU) were the 2001 census (for Manipur, 1991 census) villages (Panchayat wards in case of Kerala) in the rural sector and Urban Frame Survey (UFS) blocks in the urban sector. The ultimate stage units (USU) were households in both the sectors.

    In the case of large villages/ blocks requiring hamlet-group (hg)/ sub-block (sb) formation, one intermediate stage was the selection of two hgs/ sbs from each FSU.

    Sampling frame:
    The list of villages as per census 2001 (for Manipur, 1991 census was used since 2001 census list was not available) was used as frame for the rural sector and the latest available list of UFS blocks was used as frame in the urban sector. However, EC-98 was used as frame for the 27 towns with population 10 lakhs or more (as per Census 2001).

    Stratification:
    Within each district of a State/ UT, two basic strata were formed:
    (i) rural stratum comprising of all rural areas of the district and
    (ii) urban stratum comprising of all the urban areas of the district. However, if there were one or more towns with population 10 lakhs or more as per population census 2001 in a district, each of them also formed a separate basic stratum and the remaining urban areas of the district was considered as another basic stratum. There are 27 towns with population 10 lakhs or more at all-India level as per census 2001.

    Formation of second-stage strata and allocation of households:
    All the households listed in the selected village/ block/ segments were stratified into two second-stage strata (SSS) on the basis of land possessed by households in rural areas and household MPCE in urban areas, as follows.

    1. For the rural sector, a cut-off point 'X' (in hectares) was determined at State/ UT level from NSS 48th round data in such a way that the top 20% of rural households in the State/UT, according to the estimates from that round, possessed land equal to or more than X. All the listed households possessing land less than X were placed in SSS 1 and the rest in SSS 2.
    2. Similarly, in the urban sector, a cut-off point 'A' (in Rs.) was determined at State/ UT level from NSS 55th round data for each NSS region in such a way that the top 20% of the households, according to the estimates from that round, had MPCE equal to or more than 'A'. All the listed households with MPCE less than 'A' were placed in SSS 1 and the rest in SSS 2.

    From each SSS, the sample households were selected by SRSWOR.

    Deviations from the Sample Design

    There was no deviation from the original sampling design.

    Weighting

    Two different weights have been provided in each file in the data set. Details are as follows:-

    1. Weight for each sub sample is stored in the variable name : WGT_SS
    2. Combined subsample weight is stored in the variable name : WGT_SS_Combined

    Survey instrument

    Questionnaires

    Summary description of the schedule 1.0 on consumer expenditure for NSS 62nd round consisted of 12 blocks is given below.

    Blocks 0, 1 and 2 - were similar to the ones used in usual NSS rounds. These were used to record identification of sample households and particulars of field operations.

    Block-3: Household characteristics

    Block-4: Particulars of household members

    Block-5: Cash purchase and consumption of food, pan, tobacco and intoxicants during the last 30 days

    Block-6: Consumption of fuel & light during the last 30 days

    Block-7: Consumption of clothing, bedding, etc. during the last 365 days

    Block-8 : Consumption of footwear during the last 365 days

    Block-9 : Expenditure on education and medical (institutional) goods and services during the last 365 days

    Block-10 : Expenditure on miscellaneous goods and services including medical (non-institutional), rents and taxes during the last 30 days

    Block-11 : Expenditure for purchase and construction (including repair and maintenance) of durable goods for domestic use during the last 365 days

    Block-12: Summary of consumer expenditure.

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End Cycle
    2005-07-01 2005-09-30 Sub round 1
    2005-10-01 2005-12-31 Sub round 2
    2006-01-01 2006-03-31 Sub round 3
    2006-04-01 2006-06-30 Sub round 4
    Mode of data collection
    • Face-to-face [f2f]
    Data Collectors
    Name Affiliation Abbreviation
    NSSO(FOD) MOSPI NSS(FOD)

    Data Access

    Access authority
    Name Affiliation URL Email
    Computer Centre M/O Statistics and Programme Implementation http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/site/home.aspx nssodata@gmail.com
    Access conditions

    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.

    Disclaimer and copyrights

    Disclaimer

    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.

    Contacts

    Contacts
    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

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-62Rnd-Sch1.0-2005-2006

    Producers
    Name Abbreviation Affiliation Role
    Computer Centre MOSPI, CC M/O Statistics & Programme Implementation Documentation of the study
    Date of Metadata Production

    2012-04-02

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    Version 1.0 (April 2012)

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