India - Household Consumer Expenditure, July 1993 - June 1994, NSS 50th Round

India Household Consumer Expenditure, July 1993 - June 1994

NSS 50th Round

Socio-Economic/Monitoring Survey The 50th round of NSS was the NSS Organisation's fifth quinquennial survey on consumer expenditure and employment-unemployment. According to a decision of the Governing Council of NSSO, consumer expenditure and employment surveys are carried out simultaneously every five years. The previous four rounds quinquennial surveys were the 27th (Oct. 1972 - Sept. 1973), the 32nd (July 1977 - June 1978), the 38th (Jan-Dec. 1983), and the 43rd (July 1987- June 1988). In other rounds of NSS, too, a consumer expenditure inquiry on a reduced scale is being carried out from the 42nd round (1986-87) onwards. From the 45th round onwards the subject coverage of this schedule has been expanded to include some important questions on employment so that an annual series of consumer expenditure and employment data is now available. While some of these smaller-scale surveys are spread over a full year and others over six months only, the quinquennial (full-scale) surveys have all been of a full year's duration.

In the quinquennial surveys two separate schedules are canvassed - sch.1.0 for consumer expenditure and sch.10 for employment situation - in each sample household, enabling cross- tabulation of consumer expenditure and employment data.

Schedule 1.0 primarily collects information on consumer expenditure data, along with some information on demographic particulars and household characteristics. A special feature of the consumer expenditure schedule used in the quinquennial rounds is the provision for simultaneous collection of data on consumption for a month and a year for certain items whose consumption at the household level does not have a monthly regularity, e.g. durable goods, clothing and footwear.

The survey period of the 50th round was from July 1993 to June 1994. The survey period of one year was divided into four sub- rounds of three months each and equal numbers of sample villages and blocks allotted to each sub-round.

Following usual NSS practice, the sample of villages and blocks in which the enquiry was carried out was drawn in the form of two independent sub-samples. Either of these sub-samples could be used to generate a valid set of estimates which might be regarded as the provisional results of the survey until such time as the final results, based on the entire sample, were available.

Using this data one can find out household consumer expenditure at state and all-India level, distributions of households and persons by value of monthly per capita consumer expenditure, averages (state and all-India) of monthly per capita consumer expenditure, the break-up of these average values by important heads of consumption, break-ups of quantity and value of per capita cereal consumption by cereal type (rice, wheat, etc.) etc. separately for rural and urban sectors. The schedule also collected some other household particulars including age, sex and educational level etc. of each household member.

ID Number DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-50Rnd-Sch1.0-1993-94

The NSSO surveys on consumer expenditure aim to measure the household consumer expenditure in quantitative terms disaggregated by various household characteristics .

The data for this survey was collected in the NSS Schedule 1.0 used for household consumer expenditure. For this round, the schedule had 14 blocks.

Blocks 0, 1 and 2 - were similar to the ones used in usual NSS rounds. These were used to record identification of sample households and particulars of field operations.

Block-3: Household characteristics like, household size, principal industry-occupation, social group, land possessed and cultivated, use of hired labour, monthly per capita expenditure etc. were recorded in this block.

Block-4: In this Block the detailed demographic particulars including age, sex, educational level, marital status, number of meals usually taken in a day etc. were recorded. Besides this, information on consumption of tobacco was also recorded in this block.

Block-5: In this block cash purchase and consumption of food, pan, tobacco, intoxicants and fuel and light during the last 30 days were recorded.

Block-6: Block 6 was used to record the information of cash purchase and consumption of clothing during the last 30 and 365 days.

Block-7 : Further probing questions on the cash purchase and consumption of footwear during the last 30 and 365 days were made in this block.

Block-8: - Expenditure (cash and kind) on the miscellaneous goods and services and rents & taxes during the last 30 days and expenditure (cash & kind) on educational and medical goods and services during the last 30 days and 365 days were recorded in blocks 8 and 8.1 respectively.

Block-9: In Block 9, questions were asked about expenditure (cash and kind) for the purchase and construction (including repair) of durable goods for domestic use during the last 30 and 365 days.

Block-10: Block 10 was canvassed to record the perception of household regarding sufficiency of food.

Block 11 - In this block insurance particulars of the household during the last 365 days were recorded.

Block 12 - In this block particulars of dwelling unit were recorded.

Block 13 - In this block particulars of ceremonies performed and meals served by the household during the last 30 and 365 days were recorded.

Block 14 - Contains the summary of consumer expenditure during the last 30 days.

The survey period of the 50th round was from July 1993 to June 1994. The geographical coverage of the survey was to be the whole of the Indian Union except Ladakh and Kargil districts of Jammu & Kashmir, 768 interior villages of Nagaland and 172 villages in Andaman & Nicobar Islands which remain inaccessible throughout the year. However, certain districts of Jammu & Kashmir viz., Doda, Anantnag, Pulwama, Srinagar, Badgam, Baramula and Kupwara, and Punjab's Amritsar district, had to be excluded from the survey due to unfavourable field conditions.

The survey used the interview method of data collection from a sample of randomly selected households and members of the household.

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation	Role
Computer Centre	MOSPI, CC	M/O Statistics & Programme Implementation	Documentation of the study

2012-04-02 Version 1.0 (April 2012)

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-50Rnd-Sch1.0-1993-94