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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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Household Consumption Expenditure
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No. of meals taken in a day (B4_q9)

Data file: Block 4 - Person records

Overview

Valid: 564537
Invalid: 0
Type: Continuous
Decimal: 0
Start: 56
End: 56
Width: 1
Range: 0 - 3
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
How many meals are usually taken in a day by the household?
Interviewer instructions
The number of meals consumed by a person is usually reported as 2 or 3. In rare cases, one may come across a person who may be taking food only once in a day or more than three times a day. While in the former case the number of meals for the person will be 1 per day, in the latter case, only 3 should be entered. That is, in this column, the recorded number of meals taken in a day even if it is reported to be higher, should not exceed 3. A breast-fed baby does not directly share the food consumed by members of the household. Hence for such babies the entry in this column will be '0'.

Description

Definition
A 'meal' is composed of one or more readily eat­able (generally cooked) items of food, the usual major constitu­ent of which is cereals. The meals consumed by a person twice or thrice a day provide him/her the required energy (calories) and other nutrients for living and for pursuing his/her normal avoca­tions. A 'meal' opposed to 'snacks', 'nashta' 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 then if the quantum of food in a plate is heavy as a meal, the cont­ents of the food food plate will also be considered as a 'meal'. Sometimes the contents of a 'nastha' may not be very different from the contents of a 'meal'. The difference in quantity will therefore be the guiding factor for deciding whether the plate is to be labeled as a 'meal' or a 'nastha'.
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