India - Household Consumer Expenditure, Jan 2003 - Dec 2003, NSS 59th Round

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-59Rnd-Sch1.0-2003

Year

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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Whether Hire-purchase? (B9_q5)
File: Block 9_Household expenditure on durables

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 36852
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Whether the first hand purchase item was hire-purchased?

Categories

Value	Cases
0	3	0.0%
1	5081	13.8%
2	31687	86.0%
3	34	0.1%
4	24	0.1%
5	11	0.0%
6	7	0.0%
7	3	0.0%
8	1	0.0%
9	1	0.0%

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.

Interviewer instructions

If an item of durable goods is purchased on instalment payment and the expenditure made on it during the reference period consists of one or more such instalment payments, code 1 will be recorded in this column. Otherwise i.e., when durable goods are purchased and entire amount is paid during the reference period, code 2 will be recorded in this column.

Note: If more than one of a particular item are purchased during the reference period and some of them are purchased on hire-purchase basis and the remaining are purchased outright, then code 1 will be recorded in this column.