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

India, 2005 - 2006
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Reference ID
DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-62Rnd-Sch1.0-2005-06
Producer(s)
National Sample Survey Office
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Household Consumption Expenditure
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No. of meals taken in a day (B4_q9)

Data file: Block 4_Person records

Overview

Valid: 189872
Invalid: 150
Minimum: 0.0
Maximum: 3.0
Mean: 2.4124146793629393
Standard deviation: 0.5684194897868694
Type: Discrete
Width: 1
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
How many meals do you usually take in a day?
Categories
Value Category Cases
0 2524
1.3%
1 96
0.1%
2 103802
54.7%
3 83450
44%
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. For a person who takes food only once in a day, the entry will be 1. One may also come across a person who takes food more than three times a day. For such persons, 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. In addition, for infants of age '0' as well as for children who subsist on milk only, '0' may be recorded against this item.
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