India - Housing Condition and Migration Survey, January - June 1993, NSS 49th Round

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-49Rnd-Sch1dot2-1993

Year

1993

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office - M/o Statistcs and Programme Implementation(MOSPI),Government of India (GOI)

Sponsor(s)

M/o Statistics & Programme Implementation, GOI - MOSPI -

Collection(s)

Other Surveys

Created on

Jan 17, 2018

Last modified

Mar 27, 2019

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Mode of purchase (code) (B10_q3)
File: Block-10-Use of public distribution system-Records

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 699582
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Mode of purchase ( code )

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	NR	964	0.1%
1	Does not purchase	193381	27.6%
2	Purchase on a day to day basis	22400	3.2%
3	Weekly basis	72382	10.3%
4	Fortnight basis	29151	4.2%
5	Monthly basis	205205	29.3%
6	As and when needed	176092	25.2%
9	Invalid	7	0.0%

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

By mode of purchase, it is meant the way in which the sample household usually purchases the specified commodities either from pds or other sources. The information on the mode of purchase will be recorded in this column. in terms of codes