India - Household Consumer Expenditure, July 1993 - June 1994, NSS 50th Round

Type code : In this column, the type code will be entered for the item recorded in column (2). A 'type code' will specify the material e.g. cotton, wool, silk etc. of which the item of clothing is made. If an item is made of cotton, a further distinction will be made between mill-made, power-loom, hand-loom, and khadi production. The type codes are :

type of clothing code type of clothing code

cotton : silk and synthetic :
mill made .......................1 art silk, rayon or other
power loom ...................2 other synthetic
handloom ......................3 textile ..................................6
khadi .............................4 pure silk ..............................7
wool .............................5 mixed :
wool/synthetic/cotton/silk ....8
others : ................................9

It may be noted that if items of clothing of different' type's' are purchased and/or consumed it will be necessary to fill in one line for each item and 'type' combination.