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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Aug 02, 2016

Last modified

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Cooking (B3_q12)
File: Block 3_Household Characteristics

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 2

Valid cases: 29618
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
01	coke, coal	412	1.4%
02	firewood and chips	16074	54.3%
03	LPG	8973	30.3%
04	gobar gas	95	0.3%
05	dung cake	1803	6.1%
06	charcoal	35	0.1%
07	kerosene	1103	3.7%
08	electricity	47	0.2%
09	others	0	0.0%
10	No cooking arrangement	587	2.0%
11	invalid	489	1.7%

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

Against these two items, the code corresponding to the primary source of energy that is used by the household for cooking and the primary source of energy used for lighting during last 30 days preceding the date of survey will be recorded. If more than one type of energy is utilised, the primary or principal one on the basis of its extent of use will have to be identified and the corresponding code will be noted in the appropriate box.