Data Catalog

B3_q15 - Purchase from ration shop

Does the household purchase things from ration shop? Item : did the household purchase any cereal from ration/fair price shop during last 30 days ? : The answer against this question will be recorded in codes. The codes are yes-1, no-2. Purchase of food grains by workers from shops run by their employer at concessional or subsidised rates (this is prevalent, for example, in tea garden areas) will come under the coverage of this item. If any such purchase has been made, code 1 will be recorded.

Household Consumer Expenditure, July - Dec 1991

India - DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-47Rnd-Sch1.0-1991

B10_q1 - Do all members get two square meals?

Do all members get two square meals? The expression 'getting two square meals a day', as is used in common parlance, conveys that the concerned person get, by and large, enough food to eat. While putting this question to the informant, it is thus presumed that the informant has a clear understanding about the meaning of it. There are equivalent phrases conveying the same meaning in regional languages. It is, therefore, important to put the proper question in the local language and record the answer given by the informant in terms of prescribed code numbers. Care should however be taken to see that the informant is not offended with this question. Neither this question should be asked to those whose reported consumption would obviously indicate that they get enough to eat.

Household Consumer Expenditure, July - Dec 1991

India - DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-47Rnd-Sch1.0-1991