India - Trade Survey: NSS 53rd Round, Schedule 2.41.2, January 1997 - December 1997

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-53Rnd-Sch2dot41dot2-1997

Year

1997

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

Sponsor(s)

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

Collection(s)

National Sample Survey

Metadata

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Trade margin(whole number) (B7_c4b)
File: Block-7-Trade-Margin-commodity-Records

Overview

Type: Continuous
Format: numeric
Width: 3
Decimals: 0
Range: 0-942

Valid cases: 908761
Invalid: 69
Minimum: 0
Maximum: 942
Mean: 15.2
Standard deviation: 13.4

Definition

Trade Margin for a commodity is the percentage gain in the sale price of a commodoty over its purchase price. Mathematically it may be written as:
Trade Margin =(sale price - purchase price)/ purchase price x 100

Questions and instructions

Interviewer instructions

Trade margins are to be collected for all the 73 commodity groups as specified. The informant may be asked about trade margin for individual commodity of the group sold by the trading enterprise.The trade margin of a commodity group will not depend on the volume of transaction.But it will have some relevance with the unit of transaction since concept of trade margin is essentially based on the per unit prices of purchase and sale.If it is reported that the trade margins are varying during the month,the trade margin at last transaction may be considered.