India - Household Consumer Expenditure, NSS 58th Round, Schedule 1, July 2002 - December 2002
Reference ID | DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-58Rnd-Sch1.0-2002 |
Year | 2002 |
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 - 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
Meals (At Home)
(B4_q20)
File: Block 4_Person records
File: Block 4_Person records
Overview
Type:
Continuous Format: numeric Width: 2 Decimals: 0 Range: 0-90 | Valid cases: 153375 Invalid: 823 Minimum: 0 Maximum: 90 Mean: 70.5 Standard deviation: 17.9 |
Meal
A 'Meal' is composed of one of more readily cat able (generally cooked) items of food, the usual major constituent of which is cereal food. The meals consumed by a person twice or thrice a day provide him/her the required energy of (calorie) and other nutrients for living and for pursuing his/her normal avocations. A 'meal' as opposed to 'snacks ' as opposed to 'snacks', 'nasta' 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 that, if the total quantum of food in plate is heavy as a meal, the contents of the food plate will also be considered as a real. Sometimes the contents of a 'nasta' may not be very different from the contents of a 'meal'. The difference in quantity will there be the guiding factor for deciding whether the plate is to be led as a 'meal ' or a nasta.
A 'Meal' is composed of one of more readily cat able (generally cooked) items of food, the usual major constituent of which is cereal food. The meals consumed by a person twice or thrice a day provide him/her the required energy of (calorie) and other nutrients for living and for pursuing his/her normal avocations. A 'meal' as opposed to 'snacks ' as opposed to 'snacks', 'nasta' 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 that, if the total quantum of food in plate is heavy as a meal, the contents of the food plate will also be considered as a real. Sometimes the contents of a 'nasta' may not be very different from the contents of a 'meal'. The difference in quantity will there be the guiding factor for deciding whether the plate is to be led as a 'meal ' or a nasta.
Questions and instructions
How many meals do the members of the household usually take at home?