India - Household Consumer Expenditure: NSS 43rd Round, Schedule 1, July 1987 - June 1988

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-43Rnd-Sch1.0-1987

Year

1987 - 1988

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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Aug 22, 2015

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Monthly Per Capita Expenditure Code (MPCE_Code)
File: Blocks 1,3 and 10 - Household Characteristics

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 2

Valid cases: 128019
Invalid: 0

Definition

Household consumer expenditure :
The expenditure incurred by a household on domestic consumption during the reference period is the household's consumer expenditure. The household consumer expenditure is the total of the monetary values of consumption of various groups of items namely (i) food, pan (betel leaves), tobacco, intoxicants and fuel & light, (ii) clothing and footwear and (iii) miscellaneous goods and services and durable articles.

Monthly per capita expenditure (MPCE) :
For a household, this is household consumer expenditure over a period of 30 days divided by household size. A person's MPCE is understood as that of the household to which he/she belongs.

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Monthly Per Capita Expenditure Code

Imputation and Derivation

Derivation

This round contains some variables which are not in the questionnaire. These variables have been calculated for the purpose of specific tabulation for which documentation is not available. The user may ignore them.