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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National Sample Survey Office

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Household Consumption Expenditure

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Meals(At Home) (B4_q12)

Data file: Block 4 - Food intake

Overview

Valid: 117423

Invalid: 0

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 999

Mean: 331.459

Standard deviation: 187.332

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 71

End: 73

Width: 3

Range: 0 - 999

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

How many meals are taken at home in a day?

Interviewer instructions

the number of meals taken at home by each member of the household during the period of 30 days preceding the date of survey will be recorded. A meal will be considered to be taken at home if, the meal is prepared at home irrespective of the place where it is consumed.

Description

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