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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195958

No. of Meals per day (B4_q15)
File: Block 4_Person records

Overview

Type: Continuous
Format: numeric
Width: 1
Decimals: 0
Range: 0-3

Valid cases: 212282
Invalid: 582

Questions and instructions

Literal question

How many meals do you usually take in a day?

Interviewer instructions

The number of meals consumed by a person is usually reported as 2 or 3. In rare cases, one may come across a person who may be taking food only once in a day or more than three times a day. While in the former case the number of meals for the person will be 1 per day, in the latter case, however, only 3 should be entered. That is, in this column, the recorded number of meals taken in a day, even if it is reported to be higher, should not exceed 3. A breast-fed baby does not directly share the food consumed by members of the household. Hence for such babies the entry in this column will be '0'.