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)

Household Consumer Expenditure

Created on

Jan 17, 2018

Last modified

Mar 27, 2019

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Meals (School) (B4_q12)
File: Block 4_Demographic and Other Particulars of Household Members

Overview

Type: Continuous
Format: numeric
Width: 2
Decimals: 0
Range: 0-90

Valid cases: 84206
Invalid: 515810
Minimum: 0
Maximum: 90
Mean: 1.6
Standard deviation: 6.4

Definition

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.

Questions and instructions

Literal question

If you or any member of the household take meals free of cost from school, balwadi etc, then how many such meals are taken in a day?

Interviewer instructions

Columns (12), (13) & (14) pertain to meals taken away from home without payment.