India - Household Consumer Expenditure, July 1995 - June 1996, NSS 52nd Round

Start	End	Cycle
1995-07-01	1995-09-30	Sub Round 1
1995-10-01	1995-12-31	Sub Round 2
1996-01-01	1996-03-31	Sub Round 3
1996-04-01	1996-06-30	Sub Round 4

Face-to-face [f2f]
The data for this survey is collected in the NSS Schedule 1.0 used for household consumer expenditure. For this round, the schedule had the following blocks.

Blocks 1 and 2 - are similar to the ones used in usual NSS rounds. These are 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, primary source of energy used for cooking and lighting etc. have been recorded in this block.

Block-4: In this block detailed demographic particulars including age, sex, educational level, marital status, number of meals usually taken in a day etc. has been recorded.

Block-5: In this block cash purchase and household consumption of food, pan, tobacco and intoxicants during the last 7 days have been recorded.

Block-5.1: In this block cash purchase and household consumption of fuel and light during the last 30 days have been recorded.

Block-6: Annual household consumption of clothing has been recorded in this block.

Block-7: Annual household consumption of footwear has been recorded in this block.

Block-8 : Household expenditure on miscellaneous goods and services and rents and taxes during the last 30 days has been recorded in this block.

Block-8.1 : Annual household expenditure on education and medical (institutional) goods and services has been recorded here.

Block-8.2 : Monthly household expenditure on medical (non-institutional) goods and services has been recorded here.

Block-9 : Annual household expenditure for purchase and construction (including repairs) of durable goods for domestic use has been recorded here.

Block-10 : Perception of households regarding sufficiency of food has been recorded here.

Block-11.1 : Weekly household expenditure on ceremonies has been recorded here.

Block-11.2 : Annual household expenditure on ceremonies has been recorded here.

Block-12 : Summary of household consumer expenditure has been recorded here.