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

Documentation in PDF

Created on

Aug 22, 2015

Last modified

Aug 22, 2015

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Cooking Code (B3_1_q20)
File: Blocks 1,3 and 10 - Household Characteristics

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 128019
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

What is the primary source of energy that is being used by the household for cooking?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	coke, coal	5786	4.5%
2	firewood and chips	83481	65.2%
3	gas (coal, oil or natural)	12309	9.6%
4	gobar gas	409	0.3%
5	dung cake	11397	8.9%
6	charcoal	196	0.2%
7	kerosene	10071	7.9%
8	electricity	297	0.2%
9	others	4073	3.2%

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

Items : primary source of energy used for cooking and lighting : Against these two items, the code corresponding to the primary source of energy that is being used by the household for the purpose of cooking and for lighting, will have to be recorded. If more than one type of energy is utilized, the primary or principal one on the basis of its use will have to be identified and the corresponding code will be noted in the appropriate box.