India - Household Consumer Expenditure, Jan - June 2004, NSS 60th Round
Reference ID | DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-60Rnd-Sch1-Jan-June2004 |
Year | 2004 |
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) |
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Jan 18, 2018
Last modified
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- Blocks 1,2_ Identifi
cation of sample hou
sehold - Block 3_Household Ch
aracteristics - Block 4_Person recor
ds - Block 5_Monthly hous
ehold expenditure on
cereals, pulses, mi
lk, sugar and salt - Block 6_Weekly consu
mption of edible oil
, egg, fish and meat
, vegetables, fruits
, spices, beverages
and processed food a
nd pan, tobacco and
intoxicants - Block 7_Monthly cons
umption of fuel &
; light - Block 8_Annual consu
mption of clothing - Block 9_Annual consu
mption of footwear - Block 10_Annual expe
nditure on education
and medical (instit
utional) goods and s
ervices - Block 11_Monthly exp
enditure on miscella
neous goods and serv
ices including medic
al (non-institutiona
l), rents and taxes - Block 12_Annual expe
nditure for purchase
and construction (i
ncluding repair and
maintenance) of dura
ble goods for domest
ic use
Variable Groups
No. of Meals per day
(B4_q9)
File: Block 4_Person records
File: Block 4_Person records
Overview
Type:
Continuous Format: numeric Width: 1 Decimals: 0 Range: 0-3 | Valid cases: 152426 Invalid: 243 Minimum: 0 Maximum: 3 Mean: 2.4 Standard deviation: 0.6 |
A 'meal' is composed of one or more readily eatable (generally cooked) items of food, the usually major constituent of which is cereals. The meals consumed by a person twice or thrice a day provide him/her the required energy (calorie) and other nutrients for living and for pursuing his/her normal avocations. A 'meal', as opposed to 'snacks', 'nashta' 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 then, if the quantum of food in a plate is heavy as a meal, the contents of the food plate will also be considered as a 'meal'. Sometimes the contents of a 'nashta' may not be very different from the contents of a 'meal'. The difference in quantity will therefore be the guiding factor for deciding whether the plate is to be labelled as a 'meal' or a 'nashta'.
Questions and instructions
How many meals do you usually take in a day?
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'.