Household Consumer Expenditure, July 1993 - June 1994
NSS 50th Round

India, 1993 - 1994

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DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-50Rnd-Sch1.0-1993-94

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National Sample Survey Office

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Household Consumption Expenditure

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Code of ceremony (B13_1_q3)

Data file: Block 13 - Household expenditure on ceremony

Overview

Valid: 13796

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Start: 37

End: 38

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: character

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Literal question

Code of ceremony

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
01	Birth	602	4.4%
02	Birthday	1212	8.8%
03	Head Shaving / Mundan	145	1.1%
04	Annaprasan / First rice taking	81	0.6%
05	Thread ceremony	77	0.6%
06	Marriage	1186	8.6%
07	Marriage anniversary	65	0.5%
08	Death	842	6.1%
09	Other (Specify)	2903	21%
99	Not reported	6683	48.4%

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.

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Ceremonies are performed to solemnize notable events of life e.g. birth, marriage etc. Members of a household may have to perform some religious rites consequent upon the death a person. For various religious faiths, there are some days in a year which are observed with ceremonial performances like offering of puja, prayer, celebration of rituals etc. Such ceremonies may be performed by household members as required under the social/religious customs without incurring any expenditure for entertaining guests. On the other hand, households may have to spend something under different heads for the purpose of entertainment. Conventionally these expenditures are considered as essential part of the ceremonies performed by them. The purpose of providing this block in this schedule is to estimate the no. of meals served to guests during ceremonies performed by the household in the last 30 days preceding the date of enquiry as also the meals serves to guests and employees (non-members only) on any other occasion (other than ceremonies) and also to estimate the amount of expenditure incurred by the household on these occasions under various broad groups of items e.g. food, clothing & footwear, misc. goods & services, durable goods etc. Hence only those ceremonies on which some amount of expenditure is involved should be listed in this block.

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01 Birth
02 Birthday
03 Head Shaving / Mundan
04 Annaprasan / First rice taking
05 Thread ceremony
06 Marriage
07 Marriage anniversary
08 Death
09 Other (Specify)

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Household Consumer Expenditure, July 1993 - June 1994 NSS 50th Round