An Online Microdata Library
Logo
    Home / Central Data Catalog / CEXP / DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-58RND-SCH1.0-2002 / variable [F1]
CEXP

Household Consumer Expenditure, July 2002 - Dec 2002
NSS 58th Round

India, 2002
Get Microdata
Reference ID
DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-58Rnd-Sch1.0-2002
Producer(s)
National Sample Survey Office
Collections
Household Consumption Expenditure
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
Created on
Jan 17, 2018
Last modified
Mar 05, 2026
Page views
217373
Downloads
25915

Meals (At Home) (B4_q20)

Data file: Block 4_Person records

Overview

Valid: 153375
Invalid: 823
Minimum: 0.0
Maximum: 90.0
Mean: 70.53472860635696
Standard deviation: 17.8508334191795
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 2382
1.6%
1 1
0%
2 35
0%
3 7
0%
4 22
0%
5 8
0%
6 27
0%
7 3
0%
8 19
0%
9 3
0%
10 42
0%
11 1
0%
12 19
0%
13 2
0%
14 12
0%
15 24
0%
16 16
0%
18 16
0%
19 5
0%
20 137
0.1%
21 8
0%
22 14
0%
23 5
0%
24 30
0%
25 10
0%
26 19
0%
27 10
0%
28 29
0%
29 11
0%
30 523
0.3%
31 4
0%
32 37
0%
33 5
0%
34 49
0%
35 22
0%
36 122
0.1%
37 9
0%
38 49
0%
39 15
0%
40 501
0.3%
41 23
0%
42 120
0.1%
43 17
0%
44 285
0.2%
45 274
0.2%
46 225
0.1%
47 21
0%
48 316
0.2%
49 17
0%
50 624
0.4%
51 109
0.1%
52 851
0.6%
53 60
0%
54 847
0.6%
55 294
0.2%
56 2560
1.7%
57 359
0.2%
58 1545
1%
59 721
0.5%
60 74531
48.6%
61 6
0%
62 31
0%
63 41
0%
64 143
0.1%
65 272
0.2%
66 285
0.2%
67 44
0%
68 190
0.1%
69 249
0.2%
70 697
0.5%
71 38
0%
72 191
0.1%
73 59
0%
74 92
0.1%
75 353
0.2%
76 79
0.1%
77 33
0%
78 428
0.3%
79 58
0%
80 506
0.3%
81 506
0.3%
82 305
0.2%
83 67
0%
84 891
0.6%
85 299
0.2%
86 554
0.4%
87 709
0.5%
88 889
0.6%
89 508
0.3%
90 56800
37%
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.
Back to Catalog