India - Household Consumer Expenditure, NSS 56th Round, Schedule 1, July 2000 - June 2001
Reference ID | DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-56Rnd-Sch1-July2000-June2001 |
Year | 2000 - 2001 |
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 1,3,10_Househ
old characteristics
and perception of ho
usehold regarding su
fficiency of food - Block 4_Person recor
ds - Block 5_Monthly hous
ehold expenditure on
food and non-food i
tems - Block 5pt1_Monthly h
ousehold expenditure
on fuel and light - Block 6_Annual house
hold expenditure on
clothing - Block 7_Annual house
hold expenditure on
footwear - Block 8pt1_Annual ho
usehold expenditure
on education and med
ical (institutional)
goods and services - Block 8pt2_Monthly h
ousehold expenditure
on medical (non-ins
titutional) goods an
d services - Block 9_Annual house
hold expenditure on
durables
Variable Groups
No. of Meals per day
(B4_q15)
File: Block 4_Person records
File: Block 4_Person records
Overview
Type:
Continuous Format: numeric Width: 1 Decimals: 0 Range: 0-3 | Valid cases: 387737 Invalid: 1099 Minimum: 0 Maximum: 3 Mean: 2.4 Standard deviation: 0.6 |
A 'meal' is composed of one or more readily eatable (generally cooked) items of food, the usually major constituent of which is cereals. The meals consumed by a person twice or thrice a day provide him/her the required energy (calorie) and other nutrients for living and for pursuing his/her normal avocations. A 'meal', as opposed to 'snacks', 'nashta' or 'high tea', contains larger quantum and variety of food. In rare cases, a full meal may contain larger quantity of non-cereal food. Even then, if the quantum of food in a plate is heavy as a meal, the contents of the food plate will also be considered as a 'meal'. Sometimes the contents of a 'nashta' may not be very different from the contents of a 'meal'. The difference in quantity will therefore be the guiding factor for deciding whether the plate is to be labelled as a 'meal' or a 'nashta'.
Questions and instructions
How many meals do you usually take in a day?
The number of meals consumed by a person is usually reported as 2 or 3. In rare cases, one may come across a person who may be taking food only once in a day or more than three times a day. While in the former case the number of meals for the person will be 1 per day, in the latter case, however, only 3 should be entered. That is, in this column, the recorded number of meals taken in a day, even if it is reported to be higher, should not exceed 3. A breast-fed baby does not directly share the food consumed by members of the household. Hence for such babies the entry in this column will be '0'. To have a clear idea of what constitutes a meal, the following three paragraphs may be referred to.