Household Consumer Expenditure,July 1994 - June 1995
NSS 51st Round

India, 1994 - 1995

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DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-51Rnd-Sch1.0-1994

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National Sample Survey Office

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Household Consumption Expenditure

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Do all members get two square meals? (B10_q1)

Data file: Block 10_Perception of households regarding sufficiency of food

Overview

Valid: 53124

Invalid: 0

Minimum: None

Maximum: None

Mean: None

Standard deviation: None

Type: Discrete

Width: 1

Format: character

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Do all members get two square meals?

Interviewer instructions

The expression 'getting two square meals a day', as is used in common parlance, conveys that the concerned person get, by and large, enough food to eat. While putting this question to the informant, it is thus presumed that the informant has a clear understanding about the meaning of it. There are equivalent phrases conveying the same meaning in regional languages. It is, therefore, important to put the proper question in the local language and record the answer given by the informant in terms of prescribed code numbers.

Care should however be taken to see that the informant is not offended with this question. Neither this question should be asked to those whose reported consumption would obviously indicate that they get enough to eat.

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Household Consumer Expenditure,July 1994 - June 1995 NSS 51st Round