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

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Aug 21, 2015

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Aug 22, 2015

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Hire Purchase first hand (Whether_hire_purchased)
File: Expenditure for purchase and construction (including repair and maintenance) of durable goods for domestic use during the last 365

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 62333
Invalid: 0

Definition

Whether hire purchased (first-hand): If an item of durable goods is purchased on instalment payment and the expenditure made on it during the reference period consists of one or more such instalment payments than code 1 , Otherwise ,code 2 .

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1		4397	7.1%
2		57936	92.9%

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

whether hire purchased (first-hand): If an item of durable goods is purchased on instalment payment and the expenditure made on it during the reference period consists of one or more such instalment payments, code 1 will be recorded in this column. Otherwise i.e., when durable goods are purchased and entire amount is paid during the reference period, code 2 will be recorded in this column.
Note: If more than one of a particular item are purchased during the reference period and some of them are purchased on hire-purchase basis and the remaining are purchased outright, then code 1 will be recorded in this column.