Household Consumer Expenditure, July 1987 - June 1988
NSS 43rd Round

India, 1987 - 1988

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Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-43Rnd-Sch1.0-1987

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National Sample Survey Office

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Household Consumption Expenditure

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No. of of meals (other than those served during ceremony) (B3_3_q3_4b)

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

Overview

Valid: 128019

Invalid: 0

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 70000

Mean: 1.982

Standard deviation: 196.676

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 203

End: 207

Width: 5

Range: 0 - 70000

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

No. of of meals (other than those served during ceremony)

Interviewer instructions

A person rendering domestic service to a number of households during the day time (like cleaning utensils, dusting and cleaning of rooms, washing linens, carrying water from outside etc.) and gets some food from each of the households he/she serves. Although the quantum of food received from a single household may, by quantity be far less than a full meal, the total quantity of food received from all the households taken together would often, if not more, be at least equivalent to a full meal. In this particulars situation, the person will be considered to be consuming one meal every day under 'meals' taken away from home'.

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Household Consumer Expenditure, July 1987 - June 1988 NSS 43rd Round