India - Household Consumer Expenditure, Jan - Dec 1997, NSS 53rd Round

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-53Rnd-Sch1.0-1997

Year

1997

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

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Jan 17, 2018

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Do all members get two square meals? (B10_q1)
File: Block 10_Perception of households regarding sufficiency of food

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 51722
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Do all members get two square meals?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Yes - through out the year	50536	97.7%
2	Yes -some months of the year	921	1.8%
3	No	265	0.5%

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

The expression 'getting two square meals a day', as is used in common parlance, conveys that the concerned person get, by and large, enough food to eat. While putting this question to the informant, it is thus presumed that the informant has a clear understanding about the meaning of it. There are equivalent phrases conveying the same meaning in regional languages. It is, therefore, important to put the proper question in the local language and record the answer given by the informant in terms of prescribed code numbers.

Care should however be taken to see that the informant is not offended with this question. Neither this question should be asked to those whose reported consumption would obviously indicate that they get enough to eat.