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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
Producer(s)
National Sample Survey Office
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Household Consumption Expenditure
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Meals (At Home) (B4_q20)

Data file: Block 4_Person records

Overview

Valid: 133517
Invalid: 818
Minimum: 0.0
Maximum: 90.0
Mean: 73.01643236441801
Standard deviation: 16.39702451969555
Type: Discrete
Width: 2
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
How many meals do the members of the household usually take at home?
Categories
Value Category Cases
0 727
0.5%
2 10
0%
3 1
0%
4 16
0%
6 7
0%
7 1
0%
8 13
0%
9 6
0%
10 19
0%
12 14
0%
14 6
0%
15 16
0%
16 16
0%
18 6
0%
19 1
0%
20 77
0.1%
21 2
0%
22 5
0%
23 2
0%
24 18
0%
25 4
0%
26 16
0%
27 2
0%
28 15
0%
29 1
0%
30 343
0.3%
31 1
0%
32 29
0%
33 5
0%
34 18
0%
35 44
0%
36 46
0%
37 11
0%
38 33
0%
39 22
0%
40 253
0.2%
41 1
0%
42 34
0%
43 9
0%
44 162
0.1%
45 145
0.1%
46 121
0.1%
47 12
0%
48 176
0.1%
49 15
0%
50 396
0.3%
51 33
0%
52 535
0.4%
53 26
0%
54 702
0.5%
55 143
0.1%
56 1422
1.1%
57 160
0.1%
58 1091
0.8%
59 432
0.3%
60 62613
46.9%
61 12
0%
62 45
0%
63 29
0%
64 105
0.1%
65 156
0.1%
66 197
0.1%
67 13
0%
68 94
0.1%
69 136
0.1%
70 435
0.3%
71 6
0%
72 124
0.1%
73 10
0%
74 58
0%
75 268
0.2%
76 49
0%
77 12
0%
78 266
0.2%
79 16
0%
80 368
0.3%
81 378
0.3%
82 231
0.2%
83 32
0%
84 675
0.5%
85 301
0.2%
86 413
0.3%
87 499
0.4%
88 527
0.4%
89 260
0.2%
90 57768
43.3%
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.

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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