India - Household Consumer Expenditure, July 2005 - June 2006, NSS 62nd Round

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-62Rnd-Sch1.0-2005-06

Year

2005 - 2006

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 taken in a day (B4_q9)
File: Block 4_Person records

Overview

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

Valid cases: 189872
Invalid: 150
Minimum: 0
Maximum: 3
Mean: 2.4
Standard deviation: 0.6

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. For a person who takes food only once in a day, the entry will be 1. One may also come across a person who takes food more than three times a day. For such persons, 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. In addition, for infants of age '0' as well as for children who subsist on milk only, '0' may be recorded against this item.