India - Household Consumer Expenditure Survey: 64th Round, Schedule 1.0, July 2007 - June 2008

Reference ID

DDI-IND-NSSO-64-SCHEDULE-1.0

Year

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office,NSSO

Sponsor(s)

Ministry of Statistics & P.i, Govenment of Indis - MOSPI -

Collection(s)

National Sample Survey

Metadata

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Aug 21, 2015

Last modified

Aug 22, 2015

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cerea_from_ration (cerea_from_ration)
File: Household Characteristics

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 50281
Invalid: 0

Definition

Purchase of food grains by household from PDS (Public Distribution System) shops run by government of India wil be considered as purchase from ration/fair price shop.

Questions and instructions

Pre question

did the household purchase any cereal from ration/fair price shop during the last 30 days?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	yes	12421	24.7%
2	no	37860	75.3%

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 answer against this question will be recorded in code. The codes are: yes-1, no-2. Purchase of foodgrains by workers from shops run by their employer at concessional or subsidised rates (this is prevalent, for example, in tea garden areas) will not be considered as purchase from ration/fair price shop.