India - Household Consumer Expenditure, NSS 63rd Round : July 2006 - June 2007, NSS 63rd Round

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-63Rnd-Sch1.0-2006-07

Year

2006 - 2007

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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Cooking code (B3_q12)
File: Block 3_Household Characteristics

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 63699
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

What is the primary source of energy that is being used by the household for cooking?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	coke, coal and charcoal	1111	1.7%
2	firewood and chips	29451	46.2%
3	LPG	25687	40.3%
4	gobar gas	122	0.2%
5	dung cake	2002	3.1%
6	kerosene	2315	3.6%
7	electricity	129	0.2%
8	No cooking arrangement	1872	2.9%
9	others	1010	1.6%

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

Against these two items, the code corresponding to the primary source of energy that is used by the household for cooking and the primary source of energy used for lighting during last 30 days preceding the date of survey will be recorded. If more than one type of energy is utilised, the primary or principal one on the basis of its extent of use will have to be identified and the corresponding code will be noted in the appropriate box. The codes are:

cooking: coke, coal and charcoal- 1, firewood and chips- 2, LPG- 3, gobar gas - 4, dung cake- 5, kerosene- 6, electricity- 7, others- 9, no cooking arrangement- 8