India - Household Consumer Expenditure: NSS 55th Round, Schedule 1, July 1999 - June 2000

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-55Rnd-Sch1-July1999-June2000

Year

1999 - 2000

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

Sponsor(s)

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

Collection(s)

National Sample Survey

Metadata

Documentation in PDF

Created on

Aug 26, 2015

Last modified

Oct 23, 2015

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Cooking code (B3_q17)
File: Blocks 1,3,12_Household Characteristics

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 2

Valid cases: 120066
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

What is the primary source of energy that is being used by the household for cooking?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	invalid	3	0.0%
01	coke, coal	3114	2.6%
02	firewood and chips	63957	53.3%
03	LPG	29054	24.2%
04	gobar gas	328	0.3%
05	dung cake	7814	6.5%
06	charcoal	144	0.1%
07	kerosene	11325	9.4%
08	electricity	254	0.2%
09	others	1828	1.5%
10	no cooking arrangement	2245	1.9%

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

Against these two items, the code corresponding to the primary source of energy that is used by the household for cooking and lighting during last 30 days preceding the date of survey, will be recorded. If more than one type of energy is utilised, the primary or principal one on the basis of its use will have to be identified and the corresponding code will be noted in the appropriate box.