India - Household Consumer Expenditure, NSS 54th Round, Schedule 1, January - June 1998

MoSPI-NSS
Reference ID DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-54Rnd-Sch1.0-1998
Year 1998
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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Do all members get two square meals? (B10_q1)
File: Block 10_Perception of households regarding sufficiency of food
Overview
Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1
Valid cases: 26830
Invalid: 0
Questions and instructions
Literal question
Do all members get two square meals?
Categories
ValueCategoryCases
1 Yes - through out the year 26246 97.8%
2 Yes -some months of the year 418 1.6%
3 No 166 0.6%
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 expression 'getting two square meals a day', as is used in common parlance, conveys that the concerned person get, by and large, enough food to eat. While putting this question to the informant, it is thus presumed that the informant has a clear understanding about the meaning of it. There are equivalent phrases conveying the same meaning in regional languages. It is, therefore, important to put the proper question in the local language and record the answer given by the informant in terms of prescribed code numbers.

Care should however be taken to see that the informant is not offended with this question. Neither this question should be asked to those whose reported consumption would obviously indicate that they get enough to eat.

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