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Household Consumer Expenditure, January-December, 1983
NSS 38th Round

India
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DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-38Rnd-Sch1.0-1983
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Household Consumption Expenditure
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Whether household maintains account of expenditure (Expenditure_account)

Data file: Blocks 1,3 and 10- Household Characteristics

Overview

Valid: 117604
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Start: 46
End: 46
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: character

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Whether household maintains account of expenditure?
Categories
Value Category Cases
0 Not reported 679
0.6%
1 Yes 614
0.5%
2 No 116298
98.9%
9 Invalid 13
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.

Description

Definition
Household :

A group of persons normally living together and taking food from a common kitchen constitutes a household. The word "normally" means that temporary visitors are excluded but temporary stay-aways are included.Thus a son or daughter residing in a hostel for studies is excluded from the household of his/her parents, but a resident employee or resident domestic servant or paying guest (but not just a tenant in the house) is included in the employer/host's household. "Living together" is usually given more importance than "sharing food from a common kitchen" in drawing the boundaries of a household in case the two criteria are in conflict; however, in the special case of a person taking food with his family but sleeping elsewhere (say in a shop or a different house) due to space shortage, the household formed by such a person's family members is taken to include the person also. Each inmate of a mess, hotel, boarding and lodging house, hostel, etc. is considered as a single-member household except that a family living in a hotel (say) is considered as one household only; the same applies to residential staff of such establishments.
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