India - Household Consumer Expenditure: NSS 50th Round, Schedule 1, July 1993 - June 1994

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-50Rnd-Sch1.0-1993-94

Year

1993 - 1994

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

Sponsor(s)

M/o Statistics & Programme Implementation, GOI - MOSPI -

Collection(s)

National Sample Survey

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Monthly Per Capita Expenditure (in Rs. 0.00) in the last 30 days (Tot_Exp_Food_Non_Food / HH_Size) (MPCE)
File: Block 14 - Summary of household expenditure

Overview

Type: Continuous
Format: numeric
Width: 8
Decimals: 2
Range: 1-68558.97

Valid cases: 115354
Invalid: 0
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 68559
Mean: 432.2
Standard deviation: 582.6

Definition

It has been obtained by dividing the total consumer expenditure by the household size. The result of the division has been recorded in rupees with two places of decimal.

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

Interviewer instructions

In this block, the expenditure on broad groups of items is to be recorded in column(6). The figures for this summary block should be copied from the entries made against various sub-total/total lines of block 5 to 9.2.