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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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National Sample Survey Office
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Household Consumption Expenditure
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Household Size (B3_1_q1)

Data file: Blocks 1,2,3,10,11,12,13_Household characteristics

Overview

Valid: 115354
Invalid: 0
Type: Continuous
Decimal: 0
Start: 48
End: 49
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
How many members are there in the household?

Description

Definition
The size of the household i.e. the total number of members normally residing together in the household surveyed have been recorded here.

A group of persons normally living together and taking food from a common kitchen constitutes a household. The word "normally" means that temporary visitors are excluded but temporary stay-aways are included. Thus a son or daughter residing in a hostel for studies is excluded from the household of his/her parents, but a resident employee or resident domestic servant or paying guest (but not just a tenant in the house) is included in the employer/host's household. "Living together" is usually given more importance than "sharing food from a common kitchen" in drawing the boundaries of a household in case the two criteria are in conflict; however, in the special case of a person taking food with his family but sleeping elsewhere (say in a shop or a different house) due to space shortage, the household formed by such a person's family members is taken to include the person also. Each inmate of a mess, hotel, boarding and lodging house, hostel, etc. is considered as a single-member household except that a family living in a hotel (say) is considered as one household only; the same applies to residential staff of such establishments.
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