India - Household Consumer Expenditure, NSS 60th Round, Schedule 1, January - June 2004

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-60Rnd-Sch1-Jan-June2004

Year

2004

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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Whether Hire-purchase? (B12_q5)
File: Block 12_Annual expenditure for purchase and construction (including repair and maintenance) of durable goods for domestic use

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 29817
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Whether the durable item that is being used is hire purchased by the household?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	yes	3338	11.2%
2	no	26419	88.6%
9	invalid	60	0.2%

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

If an item of durable goods is purchased on instalment payment and the expenditure made on it during the reference period consists of one or more such instalment payments, code 1 will be recorded in this column. Otherwise i.e., when durable goods are purchased and entire amount is paid during the reference period, code 2 will be recorded in this column.

Note: If more than one of a particular item are purchased during the reference period and some of them are purchased on hire-purchase basis and the remaining are purchased outright, then code 1 will be recorded in this column.