India - Household Consumer Expenditure, Jan 2003 - Dec 2003, NSS 59th Round

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-59Rnd-Sch1.0-2003

Year

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office - M/o Statistics and Programme Implementation(MOSPI),Government of India (GOI)

Sponsor(s)

M/o Statistics & Programme Implementation, GOI - MOSPI -

Collection(s)

Household Consumer Expenditure

Created on

Jan 17, 2018

Last modified

Mar 27, 2019

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Whether Ration? (B3_q16)
File: Blocks 3,10_Household Characteristics

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 40992
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Did you purchase any cereal from ration or fair price shop last month?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Yes	7125	17.4%
2	No	33867	82.6%

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

The answer against this question will be recorded in codes. The codes are yes-1, no-2. Purchase of foodgrains by workers from shops run by their employer at concessional or subsidised rates (this is prevalent, for example, in tea garden areas) will not be considered as purchase from ration/fair price shop.