India - Household Consumer Expenditure, NSS 54th Round, Schedule 1, January - June 1998

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-54Rnd-Sch1.0-1998

Year

1998

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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Jul 28, 2016

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Purchase from ration shop (B3_q15)
File: Blocks 1,3_Household Characteristics

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 26902
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Does the household purchase things from ration shop?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Yes	11308	42.0%
2	No	15594	58.0%

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

Item : did the household purchase any cereal from ration/fair price shop during last 30 days ? : The answer against
this question will be recorded in codes. The codes are yes-1, no-2. Purchase of food grains by workers from shops run by their employer at concessional or subsidised rates (this is prevalent, for example, in tea garden areas) will come under the coverage of this item. If any such purchase has been made, code 1 will be recorded.