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

India
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Reference ID
DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-48Rnd-Sch1.0-1992
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National Sample Survey Office
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Household Consumption Expenditure
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Meals (At Home) (B4_q20)

Data file: Block 4_Person records

Overview

Valid: 66965
Invalid: 1067
Minimum: 0.0
Maximum: 600.0
Mean: 70.50926603449564
Standard deviation: 16.503157658995537
Type: Discrete
Width: 3
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
How many meals do the members of the household usually take at home?
Categories
Value Category Cases
0 316
0.5%
1 2
0%
2 5
0%
4 9
0%
5 2
0%
6 4
0%
7 3
0%
8 4
0%
9 2
0%
10 34
0.1%
12 19
0%
14 1
0%
15 11
0%
16 13
0%
18 4
0%
19 1
0%
20 75
0.1%
21 7
0%
22 5
0%
24 21
0%
25 9
0%
26 5
0%
27 3
0%
28 15
0%
29 3
0%
30 308
0.5%
32 10
0%
33 12
0%
34 25
0%
35 22
0%
36 24
0%
38 13
0%
39 3
0%
40 214
0.3%
41 1
0%
42 12
0%
43 3
0%
44 116
0.2%
45 115
0.2%
46 112
0.2%
47 9
0%
48 123
0.2%
49 3
0%
50 268
0.4%
51 40
0.1%
52 348
0.5%
53 11
0%
54 376
0.6%
55 119
0.2%
56 773
1.2%
57 65
0.1%
58 456
0.7%
59 150
0.2%
60 36141
54%
61 9
0%
62 28
0%
63 22
0%
64 35
0.1%
65 145
0.2%
66 69
0.1%
67 9
0%
68 43
0.1%
69 78
0.1%
70 162
0.2%
71 5
0%
72 72
0.1%
73 8
0%
74 16
0%
75 137
0.2%
76 15
0%
77 9
0%
78 127
0.2%
79 5
0%
80 208
0.3%
81 210
0.3%
82 79
0.1%
83 11
0%
84 258
0.4%
85 115
0.2%
86 171
0.3%
87 181
0.3%
88 165
0.2%
89 117
0.2%
90 23967
35.8%
93 1
0%
96 2
0%
105 1
0%
110 1
0%
120 29
0%
124 1
0%
150 4
0%
186 1
0%
190 1
0%
446 1
0%
456 1
0%
600 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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