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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Whether Hire-purchase? (B9_q4)

Data file: Block 9_Monthly household expenditure on durables

Overview

Valid: 10440

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Start: 49

End: 49

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: character

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Whether item was hire-purchased?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Yes	2063	19.8%
2	No	8367	80.1%
9	Invalid	10	0.1%

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

If an item of durable goods is purchased on instalment payment and the expenditure made on it during the reference period consists of one or more such instalment payments, code 1 will be recorded in this column. Otherwise i.e., when durable goods are purchased and entire amount is paid during the reference period, code 2 will be recorded in this column.

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