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Household Consumer Expenditure, Jan - Dec 1997
NSS 53rd Round

India, 1997
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Reference ID
DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-53Rnd-Sch1.0-1997
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National Sample Survey Office
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Household Consumption Expenditure
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Meals (School) (B4_q16)

Data file: Block 4_Person records

Overview

Valid: 28787
Invalid: 221047
Minimum: 0.0
Maximum: 90.0
Mean: 1.9687706256296245
Standard deviation: 7.326057755690702
Type: Discrete
Width: 2
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
How many free meals do the members of the household usually take from school?
Categories
Value Category Cases
0 26199
91%
1 33
0.1%
2 171
0.6%
3 5
0%
4 11
0%
5 25
0.1%
6 14
0%
7 7
0%
8 15
0.1%
9 11
0%
10 76
0.3%
11 5
0%
12 44
0.2%
13 10
0%
14 21
0.1%
15 102
0.4%
16 31
0.1%
17 7
0%
18 67
0.2%
19 12
0%
20 597
2.1%
21 28
0.1%
22 185
0.6%
23 28
0.1%
24 182
0.6%
25 273
0.9%
26 192
0.7%
27 6
0%
28 5
0%
30 323
1.1%
32 2
0%
33 1
0%
37 2
0%
40 1
0%
43 1
0%
44 2
0%
46 1
0%
48 1
0%
50 4
0%
52 5
0%
54 1
0%
56 2
0%
60 36
0.1%
63 2
0%
78 1
0%
81 1
0%
84 2
0%
87 2
0%
90 35
0.1%
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.
Interviewer instructions
Number of meals taken outside home on payment and at home during last 30 days preceding the date of survey, for each member of the household will be recorded here. There are schools/balwadis etc., which provide standard food to all or some students as midday meal, tiffin etc., free or at subsidised rate. Such meals are to be considered as meals taken away from home. If such food is received free it will be recorded in column "Meals (School)" . Meals received at subsidised rate will be recorded in column "Meals (Payment)". There are institutions which provide canteen facilities to their students. Students can purchase food of their choice and to their requirements from those canteens on payment. In such cases also entry will be made in column "Meals (Payment)".

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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