India - Household Consumer Expenditure, July 1999 - June 2000, NSS 55th Round
Reference ID | DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-55Rnd-Sch1-July1999-June2000 |
Year | 1999 - 2000 |
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) |
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- Blocks 1,3,12_Househ
old Characteristics - Block 4_Demographic
and Other Particular
s of Household Membe
rs - Block 5_Monthly hous
ehold expenditure on
food and non-food i
tems - Block 5pt1_Monthly h
ousehold expenditure
on fuel and light - Block 6_Annual house
hold expenditure on
clothing - Block 7_Annual house
hold expenditure on
footwear - Block 8pt1_Annual ho
usehold expenditure
on education and med
ical (institutional)
goods and services - Block 8pt2_Monthly h
ousehold expenditure
on miscellaneous go
ods and services inc
luding medical (non-
institutional), rent
s and taxes - Block 9_Annual house
hold expenditure on
durable goods - Block 10pt2_Monthly
household consumptio
n of selected non-fo
od items from home-p
roduced stock - Block 11_Monthly hou
sehold purchase of s
elected commodities
supplied through PDS - Block 13_Non-food it
ems received as part
of wages and salari
es or perquisites an
d gifts given and gi
fts received by the
household
Variable Groups
No. of Meals per day
(B4_q11)
File: Block 4_Demographic and Other Particulars of Household Members
File: Block 4_Demographic and Other Particulars of Household Members
Overview
Type:
Discrete Format: numeric Width: 1 Decimals: 0 Range: 0-3 | Valid cases: 597581 Invalid: 2435 |
Meal
A 'Meal' is composed of one of more readily cat able (generally cooked) items of food, the usual major constituent of which is cereal food. The meals consumed by a person twice or thrice a day provide him/her the required energy of (calorie) and other nutrients for living and for pursuing his/her normal avocations. A 'meal' as opposed to 'snacks ' as opposed to 'snacks', 'nasta' or 'high tea' , contains larger quantum and variety of food. In rare cases, a full meal may contain larger quantity of non-cereal food. Even that, if the total quantum of food in plate is heavy as a meal, the contents of the food plate will also be considered as a real. Sometimes the contents of a 'nasta' may not be very different from the contents of a 'meal'. The difference in quantity will there be the guiding factor for deciding whether the plate is to be led as a 'meal ' or a nasta.
A 'Meal' is composed of one of more readily cat able (generally cooked) items of food, the usual major constituent of which is cereal food. The meals consumed by a person twice or thrice a day provide him/her the required energy of (calorie) and other nutrients for living and for pursuing his/her normal avocations. A 'meal' as opposed to 'snacks ' as opposed to 'snacks', 'nasta' or 'high tea' , contains larger quantum and variety of food. In rare cases, a full meal may contain larger quantity of non-cereal food. Even that, if the total quantum of food in plate is heavy as a meal, the contents of the food plate will also be considered as a real. Sometimes the contents of a 'nasta' may not be very different from the contents of a 'meal'. The difference in quantity will there be the guiding factor for deciding whether the plate is to be led as a 'meal ' or a nasta.
Questions and instructions
How many meals do you usually take in a day?
Value | Category | Cases | |
---|---|---|---|
0 | 4683 | 0.8% | |
1 | 396 | 0.1% | |
2 | 318592 | 53.3% | |
3 | 273910 | 45.8% | |
Sysmiss | 2435 |
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.
The number of meals consumed by a person is usually reported as 2 or 3. In rare cases, one may come across a person who may be taking food only once in a day or more than three times a day. While in the former case the number of meals for the person will be 1 per day, in the latter case, 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. A breast-fed baby does not directly share the food consumed by members of the household. Hence for such babies the entry in this column will be '0'.