Household Consumer Expenditure, Jan - Dec 1997
NSS 53rd Round

India, 1997

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Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-53Rnd-Sch1.0-1997

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

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Household Consumption Expenditure

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Meals (Others) (B4_q18)

Data file: Block 4_Person records

Overview

Valid: 42817

Invalid: 207017

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 90

Mean: 5.709

Standard deviation: 13.277

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 78

End: 79

Width: 2

Range: 0 - 90

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

How many free meals do the members of the household usually take from other sources?

Interviewer instructions

Meals consumed as guests in other households, will also be taken into account while making entries in column (18) .

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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Household Consumer Expenditure, Jan - Dec 1997 NSS 53rd Round