India - Household Consumer Expenditure, NSS 62nd Round, Schedule 1, July 2005 - June 2006

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-62Rnd-Sch1.0-2005-06

Year

2005 - 2006

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

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Purchase any cereal from ration/ fair price shop last month (B3_q17)
File: Block 3_Household Characteristics

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 39404
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Did you purchase any cereal from ration or fair price shop last month?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Yes	8523	21.6%
2	No	30881	78.4%

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

The answer against this question will be recorded in code. The codes are: yes-1, no-2. Purchase of foodgrains by workers from shops run by their employer at concessional or subsidised rates (this is prevalent, for example, in tea garden areas) will not be considered as purchase from ration/fair price shop.