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Household Consumer Expenditure, July 1989 - June 1990
NSS 45th Round

India
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DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-45Rnd-Sch1.0-1989
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National Sample Survey Office
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Household Consumption Expenditure
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Meals (Free of cost) (B4_q10)

Data file: Block 4_Person records

Overview

Valid: 45688
Invalid: 92934
Minimum: 0.0
Maximum: 3000.0
Mean: 4.168315531430572
Standard deviation: 19.31322641930388
Type: Discrete
Width: 4
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Does any member of the household take meals free of cost? If yes, then how many such meals are taken in a day?
Categories
Value Category Cases
0 35515
77.7%
1 371
0.8%
2 715
1.6%
3 383
0.8%
4 914
2%
5 128
0.3%
6 1019
2.2%
7 62
0.1%
8 597
1.3%
9 428
0.9%
10 476
1%
11 13
0%
12 534
1.2%
13 15
0%
14 273
0.6%
15 281
0.6%
16 326
0.7%
17 9
0%
18 154
0.3%
19 15
0%
20 534
1.2%
21 112
0.2%
22 32
0.1%
23 12
0%
24 203
0.4%
25 94
0.2%
26 37
0.1%
27 18
0%
28 53
0.1%
29 13
0%
30 914
2%
31 3
0%
32 42
0.1%
33 11
0%
34 16
0%
35 5
0%
36 64
0.1%
37 2
0%
38 14
0%
39 11
0%
40 119
0.3%
41 1
0%
42 23
0.1%
43 4
0%
44 16
0%
45 154
0.3%
46 22
0%
47 1
0%
48 25
0.1%
50 42
0.1%
51 2
0%
52 16
0%
54 22
0%
56 11
0%
58 5
0%
60 490
1.1%
62 1
0%
63 2
0%
65 1
0%
66 13
0%
67 1
0%
69 9
0%
70 4
0%
71 1
0%
72 1
0%
75 20
0%
78 10
0%
80 4
0%
81 8
0%
84 4
0%
86 2
0%
87 4
0%
90 225
0.5%
92 1
0%
200 2
0%
300 2
0%
1202 1
0%
3000 1
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
Meal
A 'Meal' is composed of one of more readily cat able (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 of (calorie) and other nutrients for living and for pursuing his/her normal avocations. A 'meal' as opposed to 'snacks ' as opposed to 'snacks', 'nasta' or 'high tea' , contains larger quantum and variety of food. In rare cases, a full meal may contain larger quantity of non-cereal food. Even that, if the total quantum of food in plate is heavy as a meal, the contents of the food plate will also be considered as a real. 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 led as a 'meal ' or a nasta.
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