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Household Consumer Expenditure, Jan - June 1993
NSS 49th Round

India
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DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-49Rnd-Sch1.0-1993
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National Sample Survey Office
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Household Consumption Expenditure
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Meals (At Home) (B4_q20)

Data file: Block 4_Person records

Overview

Valid: 147925
Invalid: 1901
Minimum: 0.0
Maximum: 654.0
Mean: 70.55455805306744
Standard deviation: 16.526772534289837
Type: Discrete
Width: 3
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
How many meals do the members of the household usually take at home?
Categories
Value Category Cases
0 983
0.7%
2 37
0%
3 5
0%
4 23
0%
5 4
0%
6 29
0%
7 1
0%
8 25
0%
9 9
0%
10 27
0%
12 20
0%
13 2
0%
14 13
0%
15 17
0%
16 17
0%
17 1
0%
18 9
0%
19 1
0%
20 140
0.1%
21 7
0%
22 5
0%
24 45
0%
25 11
0%
26 7
0%
27 11
0%
28 29
0%
29 1
0%
30 532
0.4%
32 25
0%
33 2
0%
34 33
0%
35 49
0%
36 134
0.1%
37 4
0%
38 31
0%
39 16
0%
40 397
0.3%
41 6
0%
42 45
0%
43 7
0%
44 253
0.2%
45 219
0.1%
46 169
0.1%
47 12
0%
48 227
0.2%
49 6
0%
50 619
0.4%
51 52
0%
52 650
0.4%
53 31
0%
54 683
0.5%
55 216
0.1%
56 1721
1.2%
57 136
0.1%
58 935
0.6%
59 320
0.2%
60 79937
54%
61 7
0%
62 93
0.1%
63 35
0%
64 102
0.1%
65 209
0.1%
66 144
0.1%
67 30
0%
68 106
0.1%
69 148
0.1%
70 411
0.3%
71 11
0%
72 134
0.1%
73 13
0%
74 49
0%
75 290
0.2%
76 46
0%
77 9
0%
78 254
0.2%
79 14
0%
80 402
0.3%
81 290
0.2%
82 244
0.2%
83 38
0%
84 506
0.3%
85 216
0.1%
86 394
0.3%
87 393
0.3%
88 382
0.3%
89 224
0.2%
90 53722
36.3%
91 2
0%
92 4
0%
93 9
0%
95 1
0%
100 1
0%
120 40
0%
150 3
0%
278 1
0%
288 1
0%
654 1
0%
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.

Description

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.
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