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) | |
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- Blocks 1,2,3,10,11,1
2,13_Household chara
cteristics - Block 3pt3 - Househo
ld gift records - Block 4 - Person rec
ords - Block 5 - Monthly ho
usehold expenditure
on food and non food
items - Block 6 - Household
expenditure on cloth
ing - Block 7 - Household
expenditure on footw
ear - Block 8 - Monthly ho
usehold expenditure
on misc goods and se
rvices - Block 8pt1 - Househo
ld expenditure on ed
ucation and medical
goods and services - Block 9 - Household
expenditure on durab
le goods - Block 13 - Household
expenditure on cere
mony - Block 14 - Summary o
f household expendit
ure
Variable Groups
No. of meals taken in a day
(B4_q9)
File: Block 4 - Person records
File: Block 4 - Person records
Overview
Type:
Continuous Format: numeric Width: 1 Decimals: 0 Range: 0-3 | Valid cases: 564537 Invalid: 0 |
Definition
A 'meal' is composed of one or more readily eatable (generally cooked) items of food, the usual major constituent of which is cereals. The meals consumed by a person twice or thrice a day provide him/her the required energy (calories) and other nutrients for living and for pursuing his/her normal avocations. A 'meal' opposed to 'snacks', 'nashta' or 'high tea' contains larger quantum and variety of food. In rare cases, a full meal may contain larger quantity of non-cereal food. Even then if the quantum of food in a plate is heavy as a meal, the contents of the food food plate will also be considered as a 'meal'. Sometimes the contents of a 'nastha' may not be very different from the contents of a 'meal'. The difference in quantity will therefore be the guiding factor for deciding whether the plate is to be labeled as a 'meal' or a 'nastha'.
Questions and instructions
Literal question
How many meals are usually taken in a day by the household?
Interviewer instructions
The number of meals consumed by a person is usually reported as 2 or 3. In rare cases, one may come across a person who may be taking food only once in a day or more than three times a day. While in the former case the number of meals for the person will be 1 per day, in the latter case, only 3 should be entered. That is, in this column, the recorded number of meals taken in a day even if it is reported to be higher, should not exceed 3. A breast-fed baby does not directly share the food consumed by members of the household. Hence for such babies the entry in this column will be '0'.