India - Debt and Investment Survey: NSS 48th Round, Schedule 18.2, January - December 1992

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-48Rnd-Sch18pt2-1992

Year

1992

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

Sponsor(s)

M/o Statistics and Programme Implementation(MOSPI),Government of India (GOI) - MOSPI -

Collection(s)

National Sample Survey

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Household monthly per capita expenditure (Rs. 0.00) (B5_q17)
File: Blocks 1,2,3,4,5_Visit 1_Household characteristics

Overview

Type: Continuous
Format: numeric
Width: 8
Decimals: 2
Range: 0-35000

Valid cases: 56927
Invalid: 104
Minimum: 0
Maximum: 35000
Mean: 302.1
Standard deviation: 301.1

Definition

Household consumer expenditure:
It is the expenditure of a household on domestic consumption only. It is the same as the expenditure covered in the consumer expenditure survey of the NSSO. Any expenditure incurred by the household on its enterprise account was excluded from consumer expenditure.

Household monthly per capita consumer expenditure (MPCE):
This was obtained from the household's total consumer expenditure during last 30 days divided by the household size and recorded in terms of rupees and paisas.

Questions and instructions

Interviewer instructions

The figure for this item would be obtained by dividing the entry against item 16 by the entry against item 1(household size). This will be recorded in rupees in two places of decimal.