India - Household Consumer Expenditure, July 2004 - June 2005, NSS 61st Round

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-61Rnd-Sch1-July2004-June2005

Year

2004 - 2005

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 18, 2018

Last modified

Mar 27, 2019

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No. of Meals per day (B4_q9)
File: Block 4_Person records

Overview

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

Valid cases: 609513
Invalid: 223
Minimum: 0
Maximum: 3
Mean: 2.4
Standard deviation: 0.6

Questions and instructions

Literal question

How many number of meals are usually taken 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. To have a clear idea of what constitutes a meal, paragraph 1.7.12 may be referred to. In addition, for infants of age '0' as well as for children who subsist on milk only, '0' may be recorded against this item.