Household Consumer Expenditure, July 1999 - June 2000
NSS 55th Round

India, 1999 - 2000

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DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-55Rnd-Sch1-July1999-June2000

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National Sample Survey Office

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Household Consumption Expenditure

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Meals(At Home) (B4_q16)

Data file: Block 4_Demographic and Other Particulars of Household Members

Overview

Valid: 594288

Invalid: 5728

Minimum: 0.0

Maximum: 99.0

Mean: 71.91568566082438

Standard deviation: 16.82960632958759

Type: Discrete

Width: 2

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

How many meals are taken at home in a day?

Categories

Value	Cases
0	4447	0.7%
1	3	0%
2	99	0%
3	95	0%
4	72	0%
5	12	0%
6	94	0%
7	2	0%
8	45	0%
9	64	0%
10	151	0%
11	10	0%
12	89	0%
14	41	0%
15	125	0%
16	81	0%
17	2	0%
18	44	0%
19	2	0%
20	557	0.1%
21	36	0%
22	26	0%
23	7	0%
24	139	0%
25	30	0%
26	58	0%
27	21	0%
28	101	0%
29	16	0%
30	2079	0.3%
31	8	0%
32	93	0%
33	13	0%
34	225	0%
35	153	0%
36	364	0.1%
37	23	0%
38	115	0%
39	48	0%
40	1848	0.3%
41	23	0%
42	240	0%
43	29	0%
44	869	0.1%
45	910	0.2%
46	809	0.1%
47	65	0%
48	1064	0.2%
49	39	0%
50	2018	0.3%
51	208	0%
52	2873	0.5%
53	132	0%
54	3435	0.6%
55	855	0.1%
56	7559	1.3%
57	730	0.1%
58	4373	0.7%
59	1375	0.2%
60	287344	48.4%
61	42	0%
62	141	0%
63	110	0%
64	508	0.1%
65	847	0.1%
66	965	0.2%
67	73	0%
68	585	0.1%
69	767	0.1%
70	2238	0.4%
71	56	0%
72	731	0.1%
73	90	0%
74	248	0%
75	1524	0.3%
76	190	0%
77	74	0%
78	1706	0.3%
79	94	0%
80	2114	0.4%
81	1929	0.3%
82	994	0.2%
83	243	0%
84	3178	0.5%
85	1432	0.2%
86	2025	0.3%
87	2043	0.3%
88	2107	0.4%
89	1060	0.2%
90	239785	40.3%
99	1	0%

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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Household Consumer Expenditure, July 1999 - June 2000 NSS 55th Round