India - Household Consumer Expenditure: NSS 38th Round, Schedule 1, January - December 1983
Reference ID | DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-38Rnd-Sch1.0-1983 |
Year | 0 |
Country | India |
Producer(s) | National Sample Survey Office |
Sponsor(s) | M/o Statistics & Programme Implementation, GOI - MOSPI - |
Collection(s) | |
Metadata | Documentation in PDF |
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- Blocks 1,3 and 10- H
ousehold Characteris
tics - Block 4 - Food intak
e - Block 5 - Monthly ho
usehold expenditure
on food and non food
items - Block 6pt1 - Monthly
household expenditu
re on clothing - Block 6pt2 - Househo
ld expenditure on cl
othing - Block 7pt1 - Monthly
household expenditu
re on footwear - Block 7pt2 - Househo
ld expenditure on fo
otwear - Block 8 - Monthly ho
usehold expenditure
on misc. goods and s
ervices - Block 9pt1 - Monthly
household expenditu
re for purchase of d
urables - Block 9pt1 - Househo
ld expenditure for p
urchase of durables - Block 9pt2 - Monthly
household expenditu
re for construction
& repair of dura
bles - Block 9pt2 - Househo
ld expenditure for c
onstruction & re
pair of durables
Variable Groups
Does the household get enough food?
(B10_q11)
File: Blocks 1,3 and 10- Household Characteristics
File: Blocks 1,3 and 10- Household Characteristics
Overview
Type:
Discrete Format: character Width: 1 | Valid cases: 117604 Invalid: 0 |
Household :
A group of persons normally living together and taking food from a common kitchen constitutes a household. The word "normally" means that temporary visitors are excluded but temporary stay-aways are included.Thus a son or daughter residing in a hostel for studies is excluded from the household of his/her parents, but a resident employee or resident domestic servant or paying guest (but not just a tenant in the house) is included in the employer/host's household. "Living together" is usually given more importance than "sharing food from a common kitchen" in drawing the boundaries of a household in case the two criteria are in conflict; however, in the special case of a person taking food with his family but sleeping elsewhere (say in a shop or a different house) due to space shortage, the household formed by such a person's family members is taken to include the person also. Each inmate of a mess, hotel, boarding and lodging house, hostel, etc. is considered as a single-member household except that a family living in a hotel (say) is considered as one household only; the same applies to residential staff of such establishments.
A group of persons normally living together and taking food from a common kitchen constitutes a household. The word "normally" means that temporary visitors are excluded but temporary stay-aways are included.Thus a son or daughter residing in a hostel for studies is excluded from the household of his/her parents, but a resident employee or resident domestic servant or paying guest (but not just a tenant in the house) is included in the employer/host's household. "Living together" is usually given more importance than "sharing food from a common kitchen" in drawing the boundaries of a household in case the two criteria are in conflict; however, in the special case of a person taking food with his family but sleeping elsewhere (say in a shop or a different house) due to space shortage, the household formed by such a person's family members is taken to include the person also. Each inmate of a mess, hotel, boarding and lodging house, hostel, etc. is considered as a single-member household except that a family living in a hotel (say) is considered as one household only; the same applies to residential staff of such establishments.
Questions and instructions
Does the household get enough food?
Value | Category | Cases | |
---|---|---|---|
0 | Not reported | 517 | 0.4% |
1 | Yes - throughout the year | 101158 | 86.0% |
2 | Some months of the year | 13932 | 11.8% |
3 | No | 1997 | 1.7% |
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.
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. If the informant reports that the members of the household gets two square meals a day, throughout the year, the code to be entered in the box space of this block is 1. If adequate food is available in only a few months of the year the code 2 will be noted. Code 3 will indicate that the household do not usually get two square meals a day for its members.
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. If the informant reports that the members of the household gets two square meals a day, throughout the year, the code to be entered in the box space of this block is 1. If adequate food is available in only a few months of the year the code 2 will be noted. Code 3 will indicate that the household do not usually get two square meals a day for its members.