Household Consumer Expenditure, Jan - Dec 1992
NSS 48th Round

India

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DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-48Rnd-Sch1.0-1992

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National Sample Survey Office

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Survey ID number

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-48Rnd-Sch1.0-1992

Title

Household Consumer Expenditure, Jan - Dec 1992

Subtitle

NSS 48th Round

Abbreviation or Acronym

HCE 1992 : NSS 48th Round

Country

Name	Country code
India	IND

Study type

Socio-Economic/Monitoring Survey [hh/sems]

Series Information

The National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) has been set up by the Government of India in 1950 to collect socio-economic data employing scientific sampling methods. The NSSO conducts regular consumer expenditure surveys as part of its “rounds”, each round being normally of a year's duration and covering more than one subject of study. The surveys are conducted through household interviews, using a random sample of households covering practically the entire geographical area of the country. Surveys on consumer expenditure are being conducted quinquennially on a large sample of households from the 27th round (October 1972 - September 1973) onwards. Apart from these quinquennial surveys, the NSSO collected information on consumer expenditure from a smaller sample of households since 42nd round (July 1986 - June 1987). Nowadays every round of NSS includes a consumer expenditure survey (CES), giving rise to an annual series of consumption data. The field operations of the 48th NSS round commenced on 1st January 1992 and continued up to 31 Dec 1992. The household consumer expenditure schedule, used for the survey, collected information on quantity and value of household consumption with a reference period of “last 30 days” for some items of consumption. To minimise recall errors, a very detailed item classification was, as usual, adopted to collect information. The field work for the survey was conducted, as usual, by the Field Operations Division of the Organisation. The collected data were processed by the Data Processing Division of NSSO and tabulated by the Computer Centre of Department of Statistics. The reports have been prepared by Survey Design & Research Division (SDRD) of NSSO under the guidance of the Governing Council, NSSO.

Abstract

The National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) has been carrying out All-India surveys on consumer expenditure. While some of these smaller-scale surveys are spread over a full year and others over six months only, the quinquennial (full-scale) surveys have all been of a full year's duration. Household consumer expenditure is measured as the expenditure incurred by a household on domestic account during a specified period, called reference period. It includes the imputed values of goods and services, which are not purchased but procured otherwise for consumption. In other words, it is the sum total of monetary values of all the items (i.e. goods and services) consumed by the household on domestic account during the reference period. Any expenditure incurred towards the productive enterprises of the households is also excluded from household consumer expenditure. To minimise recall errors, a very detailed item classification is adopted to collect information, including items of food, items of fuel, items of clothing, bedding and footwear, items of educational and medical expenses, items of durable goods and other items. The schedule has also collected some other household particulars including age, sex and educational level etc. of each household member. The schedule design for the survey is more or less similar to that adopted in the previous rounds.

Kind of Data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Unit of Analysis

Randomly selected households based on sampling procedure and members of the household

Version

Version Description

V1.0; Re-organised anonymised dataset for public distribution.

Version Date

2012-05-27

Scope

Notes

The NSSO surveys on consumer expenditure aim to measure the household consumer expenditure in quantitative terms disaggregated by various household characteristics.

The data for this survey is collected in the NSS Schedule 1.0 used for household consumer expenditure. For this round, the schedule had 11 blocks.

Blocks 1 and 2 - are similar to the ones used in usual NSS rounds. These are used to record identification of sample households and particulars of field operations.

Block-3: Household characteristics like, household size, principal industry-occupation, social group, land possessed, primary source of energy used for cooking and lighting etc. have been recorded in this block.

Block-4: In this block detailed demographic particulars including age, sex, educational level, marital status, number of meals usually taken in a day etc. have been recorded.

Block-5: In this block cash purchase and household consumption of food, pan, tobacco, intoxicants and fuel & light during the last 30 days have been recorded.

Block-6: Household consumption of clothing during the last 30 has been recorded in this block.

Block-7: Household consumption of footwear during the last 30 has been recorded in this block.

Block-8 : Household expenditure on miscellaneous goods and services and rents and taxes during the last 30 days has been recorded in this block.

Block-9 : Household expenditure for purchase and construction (including repairs) of durable goods for domestic use during the last 30 days has been recorded here.

Block-10 : Perception of households regarding sufficiency of food has been recorded here.

Block-11 : Summary of household consumer expenditure during the last 30 days has been recorded here.

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

The 48th Round was planned to cover the whole of Indian Union except
(i) Ladakh and Kargil districts of Jammu & Kashmir,
(ii) 768 interior villages of Nagaland (out of a total of 1119 villages ) located beyond 5 kms. of a bus route,
(iii) 172 villages in Andaman & Nicobar Islands (out of a total of 520 villages) which are inaccessible throughout the year.
However, the survey could not be conducted in certain districts of Jammu & Kashmir viz. Anantnag, Pulwana, Srinagar, Badgam, Baramula and Kupwara, and the district of Amritsar in Punjab due to unfavourable field conditions.

Universe

The survey used the interview method of data collection from a sample of randomly selected households and members of the household.

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators

Name	Affiliation
National Sample Survey Office	M/o Statistics and Programme Implementation(MOSPI),Government of India (GOI)

Producers

Name	Affiliation	Role
Survey Design Reearch Division	National Sample Survey Office	Questionnaire Design, Sampling methodology, Survey Reports
Field Operations Division	National Sample Survey Office	Field Work
Data Processing Division	National Sample Survey Office	Data Processing
Computer Centre	M/o Statistics and Programme Implementation(MOSPI)	Tabulation and Dissemination

Funding Agency/Sponsor

Name	Abbreviation
M/o Statistics & Programme Implementation, GOI	MOSPI

Other Identifications/Acknowledgments

Name	Affiliation	Role
Governing council and Working Group	GOI	Finalisation of survey study

Sampling

Sampling Procedure

The sample design adopted for the survey was essentially a stratified two-stage one for both rural and urban areas. The census villages and urban blocks were the first stage units (FSUs) for the rural and urban sectors respectively, while households were the second stage sampling units (SSUs) for both the sectors. The selection of villages was done with probability proportional to population (with replacement), based mainly on the 1981 census list of villages. The selection of urban blocks was done with equal probability without replacement based on Urban Frame Survey (UFS) conducted by the NSSO on an on-going basis.

Sample size - first stage units: In all, 9052 villages were planned to be surveyed in this round. Of these, 4328 villages were allocated to the central sample which was the part surveyed mainly by the NSSO field staff. The remaining villages were allocated to the state sample, which was the part to be surveyed by the state agencies. In the urban sector, the allocations for the central and state samples were 2484 and 3076 respectively.

Sample size - second stage units: For the AIDIS, 9 households from every sample village and every urban block were planned to be surveyed. In the central sample, the actual number of households surveyed was 36425 in the rural sector and 20606 in the urban sector.

Weighting

Multiplier has been provided in each file in data set as weight.

Survey instrument

Questionnaires