No of meal per day
(No_of_Meals_per_day)
File: Demographic and other particulars of household members
Overview
Type:
Discrete
Format: numeric
Width: 1
Decimals: 0
Range:
1-4
| Valid cases: 0
Invalid: 0
|
Definition
number of meals usually taken in a day: The number of meals consumed by a person is usually reported as 2 or 3. For a person who takes food only once in a day, the entry will be 1. One may also come across a person who takes food more than three times a day.
Questions and instructions
Categories
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
number of meals usually taken in a day: The number of meals consumed by a person is usually reported as 2 or 3. For a person who takes food only once in a day, the entry will be 1. One may also come across a person who takes food more than three times a day. For such persons, however, only 3 should be entered. That is, in this column, the recorded number of meals taken in a day, even if it is reported to be higher, should not exceed 3. In addition, for infants of age '0' as well as for children who subsist on milk only, '0' may be recorded against this item.
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