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Household Consumer Expenditure, Jan - June 1998
NSS 54th Round

India, 1998
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Reference ID
DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-54Rnd-Sch1.0-1998
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National Sample Survey Office
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Household Consumption Expenditure
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Meals (Employer) (B4_q17)

Data file: Block 4_Person records

Overview

Valid: 7969
Invalid: 126366
Minimum: 0.0
Maximum: 90.0
Mean: 1.581628811645125
Standard deviation: 7.939855731902617
Type: Discrete
Width: 2
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
How many free meals do the members of the household usually take from the employer?
Categories
Value Category Cases
0 7452
93.5%
1 1
0%
2 8
0.1%
3 6
0.1%
4 15
0.2%
5 13
0.2%
6 26
0.3%
7 3
0%
8 21
0.3%
9 11
0.1%
10 72
0.9%
11 2
0%
12 19
0.2%
14 6
0.1%
15 30
0.4%
16 7
0.1%
18 5
0.1%
20 59
0.7%
21 7
0.1%
22 4
0.1%
23 1
0%
24 3
0%
25 11
0.1%
26 8
0.1%
27 1
0%
28 5
0.1%
30 74
0.9%
35 2
0%
36 2
0%
40 16
0.2%
42 2
0%
45 5
0.1%
46 1
0%
50 8
0.1%
52 2
0%
53 1
0%
55 1
0%
57 1
0%
60 33
0.4%
62 1
0%
72 2
0%
78 4
0.1%
80 1
0%
90 17
0.2%
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.
Interviewer instructions
Sometimes meals are provided by the employer. These may be as perquisites or as part of wages in kind. These meals are
generally consumed at the place of work and are to be considered as meals taken away from home. It may not be rare that meals provided by the employer are brought home by the employees and consumed there. Such meals are also to be considered as meals taken away from home. In this column the number of such meals received and consumed during the reference period by an individual member will be recorded.

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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