India - Household Consumer Expenditure, July 1999 - June 2000, NSS 55th Round

Start	End	Cycle
1999-07-01	1999-09-30	Sub Round 1
1999-10-01	1999-12-31	Sub Round 2
2000-01-01	2000-03-31	Sub Round 3
2000-04-01	2000-06-30	Sub Round 4

Face-to-face [f2f]
Schedule 1.0 of the 55th NSS round consists of the following blocks:

Block 0: Descriptive identification of sample household: This block is meant for recording descriptive identification particulars of a sample household.

Block 1: Identification of sample household

Block 2: Particulars of field operation

Block 3: Household characteristics:
Characteristics which are mainly intended to be used to classify the households for tabulation has been recorded in this block.

Block 4: Demographic and other particulars of household members:
All members of the sample household have been listed in this block. Demographic particulars (viz., relation to head, sex, age, marital status and general education), working status, type of income received and number of meals taken have been recorded for each member using one line for one member.

Block 5: Consumption of food, pan, tobacco and intoxicants during the last 7 days and 30 days has been recorded in this block.

Block 5.1: Consumption of fuel and light during the last 30 days has been recorded in this block.

Block 6: Consumption of clothing, bedding etc. during the last 365 days has been recorded in this block.

Block 7: Consumption of footwear during the 365 days has been recorded in this block.

Block 8.1: Expenditure on education & medical (institutional) goods and services during the last 365 days has been recorded in this block.

Block 8.2: Expenditure on miscellaneous goods and services including medical (non-institutional), rents and taxes during the last 30 days has been recorded in this block.

Block 9: Expenditure for purchase and construction (including repair and maintenance) of durable goods for domestic use during the last 365 days has been recorded in this block.

Block 10.1: Particulars of production and consumption from kitchen garden, backyard etc.:
This block is intended to collect information on quantity and value of each item produced in the kitchen garden during the agriculture year July 1998 - June 1999. This apart, information on item wise consumption made out of the produce from kitchen garden during last 30 days preceding the date of survey has been collected irrespective of whether the item has been produced during the agriculture year July 1998 - June 1999.

Block 10.2: Consumption of selected non-food items from home-produced stock:
This block has been designed to collect information on consumption of some selected non-food items out of home-produced stock during last 30 days preceding the date of survey.

Block 11: Purchase of selected commodities supplied through public distribution system:
This block is designed to collect information on purchase of four commodities, namely, rice, wheat, sugar and kerosene through public distribution system and from other sources.

Block 12: Perception of household regarding sufficiency of food:
This block has been filled after completion of the enquiry on all the preceding blocks. This question is asked in order to know the perception of the household regarding sufficiency of food.

Block 13 : Particulars of goods and services received as part of wages and salaries or perquisites and gifts given and gifts received by the household (only for non-food items): This block is restricted to non-food items only, that is, items 310 to 643 of detailed blocks. It has been designed to record the particu­lars of goods and services received as part of wages and salaries or perquisites and gifts given and gifts received by the house­hold during the last 30 days prior to the date of survey.

Block 14: Summary of consumer expenditure:
This block is meant to derive the value of household per capita consumption expenditure for a period of 30 days.

Block 15: Remarks by investigator:
Any remark which is considered necessary for explaining any peculiarity in the consumption pattern of the household or any other characteristic of the household has been noted here. Such remarks help understanding the entries made in different blocks of the schedule, especially when any entry is very high or very low.

Block 16: Remarks by supervisory officer:
The supervisory officers note their views on any aspect relating to the household and on any observed peculiarity in the consumption pattern of the household in this block.