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

India

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Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-38Rnd-Sch1.0-1983

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

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Household Consumption Expenditure

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Meals (Payment) (B4_q11)

Data file: Block 4 - Food intake

Overview

Valid: 117423

Invalid: 0

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 600

Mean: 2.188

Standard deviation: 11.704

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 68

End: 70

Width: 3

Range: 0 - 600

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

If you or any member of the household take meals away from home on payment, then how many such meals do you take?

Interviewer instructions

For the purpose of making entry in column "Meals (Payment)". 'Meals received on payment' will mean that the informant has to incur some expense or part with a certain portion of his salary/wage for getting the meals. Meals purchased from hotel, restaurant or an eating house will be considered as 'meals taken away from home on payment' and will have to be counted also for making entry in column "Meals (Payment)".

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Definition

A 'meal' is composed of one or more readily eatable (generally cooked) items of food, the usual major constituent of which is cereal food. The meals consumed by a person twice or thrice a day provide him/her the required energy (calorie) and other nutrients for living and for pursuing his/her normal a vocations. A 'meal'. As opposed to 'snacks,, 'nasta' or 'high tea'. Contains larger quantum and variety or food. In rare cases, a full meal may contain larger quantity or non-cereal food. Even then, if the total quantum of food in plate is as heavy as a meal, the contents of the food plate will also be considered as a 'meal'. Sometimes the contents of a 'nasta' may not be very different from the contents of a 'meal'. The difference in quantity will there be the guiding factor for deciding whether the plate is to be labeled as a 'meal' or a 'nasta'.

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