India - Household Consumer Expenditure, July 1987 - June 1988, NSS 43rd Round

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-43Rnd-Sch1.0-1987

Year

1987 - 1988

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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No. of of meals (other than those served during ceremony) (B3_3_q3_4a)
File: Blocks 1,3 and 10 - Household Characteristics

Overview

Type: Continuous
Format: numeric
Width: 5
Decimals: 0
Range: 0-45000

Valid cases: 128019
Invalid: 0
Minimum: 0
Maximum: 45000
Mean: 8.4
Standard deviation: 224.9

Questions and instructions

Literal question

No. of of meals (other than those served during ceremony)

Interviewer instructions

A person rendering domestic service to a number of households during the day time (like cleaning utensils, dusting and cleaning of rooms, washing linens, carrying water from outside etc.) and gets some food from each of the households he/she serves. Although the quantum of food received from a single household may, by quantity be far less than a full meal, the total quantity of food received from all the households taken together would often, if not more, be at least equivalent to a full meal. In this particulars situation, the person will be considered to be consuming one meal every day under 'meals' taken away from home'.