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

India Household Consumer Expenditure, July 1999 - June 2000

NSS 55th Round

Socio-Economic/Monitoring Survey The National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) has been set up by the Government of India in 1950 to collect socio-economic data employing scientific sampling methods. The NSSO conducts regular consumer expenditure surveys as part of its "rounds", each round being normally of a year's duration and covering more than one subject of study. The surveys are conducted through household interviews, using a random sample of households covering practically the entire geographical area of the country. Surveys on consumer expenditure are being conducted quinquennially on a large sample of households from the 27th round (October 1972 - September 1973) onwards. Apart from these quinquennial surveys, the NSSO collected information on consumer expenditure from a smaller sample of households since 42nd round (July 1986 - June 1987). Nowadays every round of NSS includes a consumer expenditure survey (CES), giving rise to an annual series of consumption data. The 55th round survey is the sixth quinquennial survey conducted during July 1999 - June 2000. Household consumer expenditure is measured as the expenditure incurred by a household on domestic account during a specified period, called reference period. It includes the imputed values of goods and services, which are not purchased but procured otherwise for consumption. In other words, it is the sum total of monetary values of all the items (i.e. goods and services) consumed by the household on domestic account during the reference period. The imputed rent of owner-occupied houses is excluded from consumption expenditure. Any expenditure incurred towards the productive enterprises of the households is also excluded from household consumer expenditure.

The word "consumption" is used in different senses. The main reason for this is that some items can be used only once while others can be used repeatedly. A household consumer expenditure survey, therefore, needs to assign different meanings to consumption for different items. The NSS traditionally uses three different definitions or approaches to consumption of different items: Consumption approach, Expenditure approach and First-use approach. Items of consumption have been classified into four groups. The Consumption approach is used for Group I, the First-use approach for Group II and the Expenditure approach for Groups III and IV. The four groups of items are:

Group I: Items of food other than 'cooked meals*', pan, tobacco and intoxicants and fuel and light: Consumption is the actual consumption during the reference period. Both quantity and value of such consumption are collected.

Group II: Items of clothing and footwear: An item is consumed if it is brought into first use during the reference period. The item may or may not be procured within the reference period. It can be procured through purchase or home production, or as gift or charity. Both quantity and value are collected.

Group III: Durable goods: Any expenditure incurred on an item for purchase or towards cost of raw materials and services for its construction and repair during the reference period is treated as consumption of the item.

Group IV: Cooked meals; Miscellaneous goods and services including education, medical, rent, taxes and cesses: Any expenditure incurred on the item during the reference period is treated as consumption of the item. Consumption is recorded in value terms only.

The household consumer expenditure schedule used for the survey collected information on quantity and value of household consumption with a reference period of "last 7 days & last 30 days" for some items of consumption and "last 365 days" for some less frequently purchased items. To minimise recall errors, a very detailed item classification was, as usual, adopted to collect information. The schedule also collected some other household particulars including age, sex and educational level of each household member.

The field work for the survey was conducted, as usual, by the Field Operations Division of the Organisation. The collected data were processed by the Data Processing Division of NSSO and tabulated by the Computer Centre of Department of Statistics. The reports have been prepared by Survey Design & Research Division (SDRD) of NSSO under the guidance of the Governing Council, NSSO.

ID Number DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-55Rnd-Sch1-July1999-June2000

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: The identity of the Investigator, Assistant Superintendent and Superintendent associated, date of survey/inspection/scrutiny of schedules, despatch, etc., has been recorded in this block against the appropriate items in the relevant columns.

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.

The survey covers the whole of the Indian Union excepting (i) Ladakh & Kargil districts of Jammu & Kashmir, (ii) interior villages of Nagaland situated beyond 5 kms. of a bus route & (iii) villages of Andaman & Nicobar Islands remaining inaccessible throughout the year. All the villages of the country, uninhabited according to 1991 census, are also left out of the survey coverage of the NSS 55th round.

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

2012-09-03 Version 1.0 (Sep 2012)

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-55Rnd-Sch1-July1999-June2000