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

India, 1999 - 2000

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Reference ID

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

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

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Household Consumption Expenditure

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Jan 17, 2018

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Meals (Payment) (B4_q15)

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

Overview

Valid: 87272

Invalid: 512744

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 90

Mean: 2.461

Standard deviation: 10.231

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 103

End: 104

Width: 2

Range: 0 - 90

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

If you or any member of the household take meals away from home on payment, then how many such meals do you take?

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