India - Household Consumer Expenditure, January-December, 1983, NSS 38th Round

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-38Rnd-Sch1.0-1983

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 15, 2018

Last modified

Mar 26, 2019

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Monthly per capita expenditure (B3_1_q11)
File: Blocks 1,3 and 10- Household Characteristics

Overview

Type: Continuous
Format: numeric
Width: 8
Decimals: 2
Range: 0-27588

Valid cases: 117604
Invalid: 0
Minimum: 0
Maximum: 27588
Mean: 146
Standard deviation: 153.1

Definition

Household consumer expenditure :
The expenditure incurred by a household on domestic consumption during the reference period is the household's consumer expenditure. The household consumer expenditure is the total of the monetary values of consumption of various groups of items namely (i) food, pan (betel leaves), tobacco, intoxicants and fuel & light, (ii) clothing and footwear and (iii) miscellaneous goods and services and durable articles.

Monthly per capita expenditure (MPCE) :
For a household, this is household consumer expenditure over a period of 30 days divided by household size. A person's MPCE is understood as that of the household to which he/she belongs.

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Monthly per capita expenditure?