National Sample Survey 2007-2008 (64th round) - Schedule 1.0 - Consumer Expenditure
India, 2007 - 2008
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IND_2007_NSS64-SCH1.0_v01_M
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National Sample Survey Organization (NSSO)
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Item Code (S1B56_v02)
Data file: NSS64_Sch1_bk_5_6
Overview
Valid:
2751946
Invalid:
0
Minimum:
101
Maximum:
359
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
45
End:
47
Width:
3
Range:
-
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Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| 101 | Rice – PDS |
| 102 | Rice – other sources |
| 103 | Chira |
| 104 | Hoi, lawa |
| 105 | Muri |
| 106 | Other rice products |
| 107 | Wheat/ atta – PDS |
| 108 | Wheat/ atta – other sources |
| 110 | Maida |
| 111 | Suji, rawa |
| 112 | Sewai, noodles |
| 113 | Bread (bakery) |
| 114 | Other wheat products |
| 115 | Jowar & its products |
| 116 | Bajra & its products |
| 117 | Maize & products (excl. cornflakes) |
| 118 | Cornflakes |
| 120 | Barley & its products |
| 121 | Small millets & their products |
| 122 | Ragi & its products |
| 123 | Other cereals |
| 129 | Cereal: sub-total (101-123) |
| 139 | Cereal substitutes: tapioca, jackfruit seed, etc. |
| 140 | Arhar, tur |
| 141 | Gram: split |
| 142 | Gram: whole |
| 143 | Moong |
| 144 | Masur |
| 145 | Urd |
| 146 | Peas |
| 147 | Soybean |
| 148 | Khesari |
| 150 | Other pulses |
| 151 | Gram products |
| 152 | Besan |
| 153 | Other pulse products |
| 159 | Pulses & pulse products: s.t. (140-153) |
| 160 | Milk: liquid (litre) |
| 161 | Baby food |
| 162 | Milk: condensed/ powder |
| 163 | Curd |
| 164 | Ghee |
| 165 | Butter |
| 166 | Ice-cream |
| 167 | Other milk products |
| 169 | Milk & milk products: s.t.(160-167) |
| 170 | Vanaspati, margarine |
| 171 | Mustard oil |
| 172 | Groundnut oil |
| 173 | Coconut oil |
| 174 | Sunflower/soyabean oil |
| 175 | Rice bran oil |
| 176 | Edible oil: other |
| 179 | Edible oil: s.t. (170-176) |
| 180 | Eggs (no.) |
| 181 | Fish, prawn |
| 182 | Goat meat/mutton |
| 183 | Beef/ buffalo meat |
| 184 | Pork |
| 185 | Chicken |
| 186 | Others: birds, crab, oyster, tortoise, etc. |
| 189 | Egg, fish & meat: s.t. (180-186) |
| 190 | Potato |
| 191 | Onion |
| 192 | Radish |
| 193 | Carrot |
| 194 | Turnip |
| 195 | Beet |
| 196 | Sweet potato |
| 197 | Arum |
| 198 | Pumpkin |
| 200 | Gourd |
| 201 | Bitter gourd |
| 202 | Cucumber |
| 203 | Parwal, patal |
| 204 | Jhinga, torai |
| 205 | Snake gourd |
| 206 | Papaya: green |
| 207 | Cauliflower |
| 208 | Cabbage |
| 210 | Brinjal |
| 211 | Lady's finger |
| 212 | Palak/other leafy vegetables |
| 213 | French beans, barbati |
| 214 | Tomato |
| 215 | Peas |
| 216 | Chillis: green |
| 217 | Capsicum |
| 218 | Plantain: green |
| 220 | Jackfruit: green |
| 221 | Lemon (no.) |
| 222 | Other vegetables |
| 229 | |
| 230 | Banana (no.) |
| 231 | Jackfruit |
| 232 | Watermelon |
| 233 | Pineapple (no.) |
| 234 | Coconut (no.) |
| 235 | Coconut green (no.) |
| 236 | Guava |
| 237 | Singara |
| 238 | Orange, mausami (no.) |
| 240 | Papaya |
| 241 | Mango |
| 242 | Kharbooza |
| 243 | Pears/naspati |
| 244 | Berries |
| 245 | Leechi |
| 246 | Apple |
| 247 | Grapes |
| 248 | Other fresh fruits |
| 249 | Fruits (fresh): s.t.(230-248) |
| 250 | Coconut: copra |
| 251 | Groundnut |
| 252 | Dates |
| 253 | Cashewnut |
| 254 | Walnut |
| 255 | Other nuts |
| 256 | Raisin, kishmish, monacca, etc. |
| 257 | Other dry fruits |
| 259 | Fruits (dry): s.t. (250-27) |
| 260 | Sugar - PDS |
| 261 | Sugar - other sources |
| 262 | Gur |
| 263 | Candy, misri |
| 264 | Honey |
| 269 | Sugar: s.t. (200-264) |
| 279 | Salt |
| 280 | Turmeric (gm) |
| 281 | Black pepper (gm) |
| 282 | Dry chillies (gm) |
| 283 | Garlic (gm) |
| 284 | Tamarind (gm) |
| 285 | Ginger (gm) |
| 286 | Curry powder (gm) |
| 287 | Oilseeds (gm) |
| 288 | Other spices (gm) |
| 289 | Spices: s.t. (280-288) |
| 290 | Tea : cups (no.) |
| 291 | Tea : leaf (gm) |
| 292 | Coffee : cups (no.) |
| 293 | Coffee: powder (gm) |
| 294 | Mineral water (litre) |
| 295 | Cold beverages: bottled/canned (litre) |
| 296 | Fruit juice and shake (litre) |
| 297 | Other beverages: cocoa, etc. |
| 298 | Chocolate, lozenge etc. and sugar substitutes |
| 300 | Biscuits, cake, pastry |
| 301 | Prepared sweets |
| 302 | Cooked meals received as assistance or payment (no.) |
| 303 | Cooked meals purchased (no.) |
| 304 | Salted refreshments |
| 305 | Pickles (gm) |
| 306 | Sauce (gm) |
| 307 | Jam, jelly (gm) |
| 308 | Other processed food |
| 309 | Beverages, etc.: sub-total (290-308) |
| 310 | Pan: leaf (no.) |
| 311 | Pan: finished (no.) |
| 312 | supari (gm) |
| 313 | Lime (gm) |
| 314 | Katha (gm) |
| 315 | other ingredients for pan (gm) |
| 319 | Pan: s.t. (310-315) |
| 320 | Bidi (no.) |
| 321 | Cigarettes (no.) |
| 322 | Leaf tobacco (gm) |
| 323 | Snuff (gm) |
| 324 | Hookah tobacco (gm) |
| 325 | Cheroot (no.) |
| 326 | Zarda, kimam, surti (gm) |
| 327 | Other tobacco products |
| 329 | Tobacco: s.t. (320-327) |
| 330 | Ganja (gm) |
| 331 | Toddy (litre) |
| 332 | Country liquor (litre) |
| 333 | Beer (litre) |
| 334 | Foreign/refined liquor or wine (litre) |
| 335 | Other intoxicants |
| 339 | Intoxicants: s.t. (330-335) |
| 340 | Coke |
| 341 | Firewood and chips |
| 342 | Electricity (std. unit) |
| 343 | Dung cake |
| 344 | Kerosene – PDS (litre) |
| 345 | Kerosene – other sources (litre) |
| 346 | Matches (box) |
| 347 | Coal |
| 348 | LPG [excl. conveyance] |
| 350 | Charcoal |
| 351 | Candle (no.) |
| 352 | Gobar gas |
| 353 | Petrol (litre) [excl. conveyance] |
| 354 | Diesel (litre) [excl. conveyance] |
| 355 | Other fuel |
| 359 | Fuel and light: s.t. (340-355) |
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
It may be noted that for accounting of items a 3-digit coding system is used in all these blocks. Descriptions of the items and their codes are printed in columns (1) and (2), respectively.
Unit: Each line of this block relates to a particular item of consumption. The unit in which the quantity is to be recorded is, in case of some items, shown within brackets after the description of the item in col.(1). For items where no unit is specified after the item description in col.(1), the quantity must be recorded in kilograms (kg).
Items 101 and 102: rice: Rice will mean the grain obtained after husking and cleaning paddy.
Items 103-106: Rice products like chira, khoi, lawa, muri, rice powder, etc. which are obtained by splitting, frying, powdering, parching of the grain are covered by these items. However, if such products (e.g. muri) are made from rice in the home, their consumption will be recorded against "rice" (item 101 or 102) and not against the rice product (here, muri). Food preparations out of rice viz., pastries, cakes, sweets, etc., should not be considered as rice products. These items will be put under the appropriate item of the food group "beverages, refreshments and processed food", unless they are prepared at home, in which case consumption will be accounted against the ingredients (rice, sugar, etc.). Rice purchased in the form of "cooked rice" (not cooked meal) will also be treated as processed food and will be recorded against item 308 (other processed food).
Items 107 and 108: wheat/atta: This will mean wheat in its whole grain form, broken wheat (not powdered) and also atta used for food preparation.
Items 110-114: Maida is wheat flour, that is, wheat in its powdered form (which is purchased as "maida"), will be included under item 110 (maida). Other wheat products will either be accounted against the specific listed items or against item 114 (other wheat products). It may be noted that while consumption of bakery bread will be recorded against item 113, those for other wheat preparation like biscuits, cakes, etc., will be accounted for in food group: beverages, etc. (items 290 to 308).
Items 115-123: This series of items has been provided for recording details of consumption of jowar, bajra, maize, barley, small millets, ragi and other cereals. Each of these items will include their products also. Cornflakes (item 118) will include pop-corn also. Sattu prepared by frying and powdering of barley will be included against item 120 (barley and products). Like food preparations out of rice, food preparations of these cereals will be recorded against appropriate items of food group: beverages, etc.
Item 129: cereal: sub-total: This is a sub-total item. The sum of all the cereal items will be obtained for columns (3) and (4) and recorded in the respective columns of this line. In other words, the entry will be the sum of the entries recorded in that column against each of the constituent items (cereals and cereal products). Similarly, all other sub-total items will be derived.
Item 139: cereal substitutes (tapioca, jackfruit seed, etc.): Cereals are usually a person's staple food. But sometimes by choice or due to scarcity, a person may not consume much of cereals or may consume no cereal at all. The food requirement is partially or wholly met in such cases by consumption of food items which could be treated as substitutes for cereals. Tapioca, for example, is consumed in some parts of the country as a substitute for cereals. Similarly, jackfruit seed, mahua, etc. are also consumed as substitute for cereals. Potato or sweet potato consumed as substitutes for cereals will not however be shown here. These will be recorded under the vegetables group. Sometimes mixed cereal flour, like idli flour, which is a mixture of cereals, pulses and also of spices, is purchased and consumed. In such a case if the proportion of different constituents of the mixture is not known and/or might be difficult to obtain, the quantity and value of it will be recorded against the major constituent item of the mixed cereal flour.
Item 151: gram products: This relates to items like sattu obtained by frying and powdering of gram (whole grain). However, besan made out of gram will not be considered here. Instead, it will be recorded against item 152 (besan).
Items 160-167: milk and milk products: These items relate to milk: liquid, baby food, and products of milk obtained on transforming milk by heating, churning milk or adding chemicals like acid drops or fermenting agent, in the form of ghee, butter, curd (dahi), casein (chhana), buttermilk, etc. Sweetmeats like "sandesh", "rasagolla", "pera", etc. prepared at home out of milk purchased or home-produced will not be treated as milk products and hence will not be accounted against these items. In case a household prepares these sweetmeats from liquid milk, its consumption will be recorded against milk: liquid (item 160) and against other constituent items of the preparations. Similarly, when milk products like ghee, butter, curd, etc. are obtained from liquid milk by the household and consumed, consumption will be recorded against milk: liquid and not against the particular milk product. For example, suppose a household purchased 30 litres of milk, out of which 15 litres was converted into curd and consumed. In this case the entire amount of 30 litres will be shown against "milk: liquid" only. But if the curd is purchased from the market and consumed by the household, the quantity and value will be recorded against "curd".
Item 160: milk: liquid: This will mean milk as directly obtained from cow, buffalo, goat or any other livestock. Milk sold in bottle or polypack will also be treated as "milk: liquid". The unit of quantity for "milk: liquid" is "litre". Readily drinkable flavoured and bottled milk should be considered as "milk: liquid" and should also be recorded against this item. Milk transformed into curd, casein, ghee, etc. during the reference period for the purpose of household consumption should also be included in this item even if the milk products are not actually consumed during the reference period (a departure from the consumption approach) The same procedure will be followed even if the milk product is intended to be gifted to some other household.
Item 161: baby food: This relates to such baby food the principal constituent of which is milk e.g. Lactogen, Milk Care, Amulspray, etc. Other foods meant for babies like Farex, Cerelac, etc. whose principal constituent is not milk will not be accounted here. Such items should be recorded against "other processed food" (item 308).
Item 166: ice-cream: Ice-cream for which major component is milk will be included against this item. Ice with syrup but without milk sold in the villages as ice-cream will not be included against this item. Instead, it will be accounted against item 297 (other beverages).
Items 170 to 176: edible oil: Oils such as mustard oil, groundnut oil, etc. will be considered as "edible oil" when they are used in cooking. The same oils, when used for toilet purpose, will not be accounted against any of these items in this block, but will be recorded against item 453 (hair oil, shampoo, hair cream) or item 457 (other toilet articles) of Block 10. Two new items "sunflower/soyabean oil" (174) and "rice bran oil" (175) have been introduced in the edible oil sub-group in view of the fact that the use of such oils in cooking is increasing.
Some edible oils, such as groundnut oil, etc., are sold in the market after refining the raw oil obtained by crushing the seeds by some chemical process of neutralisation, bleaching and decolourisation. No distinction will be made between raw and refined oils.
Item 222: other vegetables: This includes green fruits like mango, watermelon, etc. consumed after preparing processed food besides the vegetables listed in the schedule.
Item 248: other fresh fruits: This will include all fresh fruits which are not listed in the schedule. It will also include sugarcane consumed like fruits.
Item 261: sugar | other sources: This will include khandsari.
Item 279: salt: This will include all edible salt, whether iodised or not.
Items 280 - 288: spices: There are a large variety of spices which are generally used in food preparations. Of these items, turmeric and chillies are most commonly used. Items not listed here are mostly purchased in the villages as mixed spice and it may be difficult to collect information on expenditure and consumption of each individual item of spices. For such spices item 288 (other spices) has been provided.
Item 294: mineral water: The term "mineral water" will be understood to mean all packaged drinking water regardless of its mineral content. Purchase of ice, which, in the previous round had been clubbed with this item, may be recorded in Block 10 against item 473.
Item 295: cold beverages: bottled/canned: This includes cold drinks like Thums Up, Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Frooti, etc. The unit of quantity, both for this item and for item 296 (fruit juice and shake), is "litre".
Item 297: other beverages (cocoa, etc.) will include soda water, but not packaged drinking water ("mineral water"), which will be recorded against item 294.
Item 298: chocolate, lozenge, etc. and sugar substitutes: This item will include confectionery such as chocolate, toffee and lozenges, and sugar substitutes such as saccharine and sugar-free cubes.
Item 300: biscuits, cake, pastry, etc: This will include all types of biscuits, as well as cake and pastry. The unit for quantity of cake and pastry is kg, not "no.".
Items 302 and 303: cooked meals: The following rules will be followed. In some respects, they differ from the procedures followed earlier. Note that the term "cooked meals" here does not refer to food cooked in the sample household or in any other household. Such food is always accounted against the ingredients in the household where it is cooked.
Item 302: cooked meals received as assistance or payment: Entries (number and imputed value of cooked meals) will be recorded against this item in the following situations:
- There are factories and offices which have their own canteen providing meals to the employees. Consumption of meals from the canteen by the employees of such institutions, if these are received free of cost, will be considered as perquisites, and their number and imputed value will be recorded in the employee households against item 302. This is a departure from the instructions of earlier rounds.
- For inmates of hostels where meals are provided free of cost by the Government or other organization which runs the hostel, the cost of meals will be imputed at local prices and recorded against item 302 in the students' (single-member) households. This again is a departure from the instructions of earlier rounds.
- Number and imputed value of cooked meals received as Government assistance (e.g under the Midday Meal scheme) will be recorded against item 302. This again is a departure from the instructions of earlier rounds.
Item 303: cooked meals purchased: For cooked meals purchased from market, i.e., from hotel, restaurant, canteen, catering agency, etc., entry will be made against item 303 in the household which purchased the cooked meals, which might have been consumed by household members, guests and other persons. This is a departure from the "use approach" followed for food generally. However, if such meals are served to employees of an enterprise operated by the household, they will be regarded as means of payment for services rendered by the employees, will be considered as consumption of the employees' households against item 302.
Items 305 to 307: pickles, sauce, jam, jelly: Pickles (305), sauce (306) and jam/jelly (307) may be purchased or prepared at home. The usual ingredients approach will be followed for accounting of home-made jam, pickles, etc. However, in a departure from the usual consumption approach for food, consumption of the ingredients (e.g., sugar) of a home-made item such as pickles will be considered as taking place at the moment the ingredients are used up in preparing the food product (e.g., pickles) and not at the time when the food product is actually eaten or ingested.
Item 308: other processed food: Items like purchased snacks or tiffin, food packets, chow mein, soup powder, etc. which have not been covered under items 298-307 will be recorded against this item.
Item 312: supari: Supari (betelnuts) in various forms is available in the market. These are fresh supari, sundried supari, fermented supari, boiled and coloured supari and scented supari. Supari consumed in any of the forms will be accounted for against this item.
Item 315: other ingredients for pan: All other ingredients excepting items 312-314, used for preparing pan, should be included in this item. But tobacco, zarda, surti, kimam, etc. which are also consumed with pan should not be included. Provision for them has been made in the tobacco group. However, products such as "Pan Parag" (pan masala) will be included in this item.
Item 321: cigarettes: Cigarette paper and tobacco are sometimes purchased separately for making cigarettes. In such cases value to be recorded would be the value of tobacco plus the value of paper taken together. The corresponding entry in quantity column will be in terms of number of cigarettes actually made and consumed. Sometimes ganja is consumed in the form of cigarettes. Such cigarettes will be considered under item 330: ganja.
Item 322: leaf tobacco: This will include all leaf tobacco consumed during the reference period in any form. Tobacco leaf burnt and powdered for brushing teeth will also be included against this item.
Item 330: ganja: This will also include ganja consumed in the form of cigarettes.
Item 332: country liquor: This will exclude country liquor prepared at home from its ingredients and consumed. Consumption entries will be made against the ingredients.
Item 335: other intoxicants: This will include drugs used for intoxication but exclude drugs used for medicinal purposes.
Item 342: electricity: The consumption will include meter rent and surcharge for electricity also. Quantity in "standard units" (kwh) actually consumed during the reference period is to be ascertained as far as possible. Usually, the household will be able to report the monthly expenditure accurately but not the number of units. Note that all commodities purchased by the household, including electricity, are to be valued at the purchase price. This means that the entry in the value column will be the expenditure actually incurred, if it is a case of purchase. ("Hooking" is not purchase.) Two common special cases of purchase are discussed below:
(a) Sometimes a fixed amount is charged from the household every month by the electricity board or supply agency, assuming an average consumption level which the agency calculates in some manner using past information, or otherwise. For example, the bill every month may show consumption as 50 units and charges as Rs.150. In this case the entry in the value column will be Rs.150. As for quantity, if the household knows that its consumption during the last 30 days was about 80 units and not 50, then 80 will be recorded. On the other hand, if it has absolutely no idea of the number of units consumed, then 50 may be recorded.
(b) Sometimes the meter is shared with the landlord and the landlord charges a fixed amount X every month from the sample household. This is a case of purchase of electricity from the landlord. Here X will be recorded in the value column and the number of units actually consumed will be ascertained as far as possible and recorded in the quantity column. If the household has absolutely no idea of the quantity then it may be assumed that the landlord is charging at the same rate as the electricity board or supply agency. This rate should then be ascertained and used to calculate the quantity consumed.
Hooking: In case of "hooking", the quantity will have to be approximately ascertained and recorded. Value of this quantity will be imputed at the local price, that is, the price that would have been charged if the connection had been legal.
Generation of electricity: For a household to which electricity is supplied by some person or agency generating electricity by means of a generator or solar power charged battery, the charges will be shown against item 342: electricity. But if the household generates its own electricity using a diesel generator or solar battery, then the fuel charges will be shown, respectively, against "diesel" and "other fuel". Charges for repair and maintenance of such generator or battery will be shown against item 601 (other cooking/ household appliances), column 7 (cost of materials and services for construction and repair).
Item 348: LPG: Usually a fixed quantity of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) is filled in a gas cylinder and supplied for domestic consumption. To find out the value of consumption of LPG during the reference period, the number of days normally taken by the household to use up one full cylinder of gas will have to be first ascertained. Suppose the price of a cylinder of gas is Rs. "V" and the household usually consumes one full cylinder in 'D' days. Then the value of gas consumed during the last 30 days will be calculated as (V x 30)/D and rounded off to the nearest whole number of rupees. However, caution money deposited for getting a gas cylinder should not be considered as consumer expenditure and should not be recorded in this schedule.
Item 352: gobar gas: The value of gobar gas is to be imputed on the basis of value of inputs used for manufacturing gobar gas.
Item 353: petrol (litre) and item 354: diesel (litre): These items have been newly introduced in view of the growing importance of data on energy use. Petrol, diesel, etc. used for generating electricity for lighting, fans, etc., will be recorded here, but not fuel used for one's vehicle.
Item 355: other fuel: This will include any other item used as fuel for cooking, lighting or other household purposes. It will include fuel used for puja, etc., but not fuel used for one's vehicle.
Unit: Each line of this block relates to a particular item of consumption. The unit in which the quantity is to be recorded is, in case of some items, shown within brackets after the description of the item in col.(1). For items where no unit is specified after the item description in col.(1), the quantity must be recorded in kilograms (kg).
Items 101 and 102: rice: Rice will mean the grain obtained after husking and cleaning paddy.
Items 103-106: Rice products like chira, khoi, lawa, muri, rice powder, etc. which are obtained by splitting, frying, powdering, parching of the grain are covered by these items. However, if such products (e.g. muri) are made from rice in the home, their consumption will be recorded against "rice" (item 101 or 102) and not against the rice product (here, muri). Food preparations out of rice viz., pastries, cakes, sweets, etc., should not be considered as rice products. These items will be put under the appropriate item of the food group "beverages, refreshments and processed food", unless they are prepared at home, in which case consumption will be accounted against the ingredients (rice, sugar, etc.). Rice purchased in the form of "cooked rice" (not cooked meal) will also be treated as processed food and will be recorded against item 308 (other processed food).
Items 107 and 108: wheat/atta: This will mean wheat in its whole grain form, broken wheat (not powdered) and also atta used for food preparation.
Items 110-114: Maida is wheat flour, that is, wheat in its powdered form (which is purchased as "maida"), will be included under item 110 (maida). Other wheat products will either be accounted against the specific listed items or against item 114 (other wheat products). It may be noted that while consumption of bakery bread will be recorded against item 113, those for other wheat preparation like biscuits, cakes, etc., will be accounted for in food group: beverages, etc. (items 290 to 308).
Items 115-123: This series of items has been provided for recording details of consumption of jowar, bajra, maize, barley, small millets, ragi and other cereals. Each of these items will include their products also. Cornflakes (item 118) will include pop-corn also. Sattu prepared by frying and powdering of barley will be included against item 120 (barley and products). Like food preparations out of rice, food preparations of these cereals will be recorded against appropriate items of food group: beverages, etc.
Item 129: cereal: sub-total: This is a sub-total item. The sum of all the cereal items will be obtained for columns (3) and (4) and recorded in the respective columns of this line. In other words, the entry will be the sum of the entries recorded in that column against each of the constituent items (cereals and cereal products). Similarly, all other sub-total items will be derived.
Item 139: cereal substitutes (tapioca, jackfruit seed, etc.): Cereals are usually a person's staple food. But sometimes by choice or due to scarcity, a person may not consume much of cereals or may consume no cereal at all. The food requirement is partially or wholly met in such cases by consumption of food items which could be treated as substitutes for cereals. Tapioca, for example, is consumed in some parts of the country as a substitute for cereals. Similarly, jackfruit seed, mahua, etc. are also consumed as substitute for cereals. Potato or sweet potato consumed as substitutes for cereals will not however be shown here. These will be recorded under the vegetables group. Sometimes mixed cereal flour, like idli flour, which is a mixture of cereals, pulses and also of spices, is purchased and consumed. In such a case if the proportion of different constituents of the mixture is not known and/or might be difficult to obtain, the quantity and value of it will be recorded against the major constituent item of the mixed cereal flour.
Item 151: gram products: This relates to items like sattu obtained by frying and powdering of gram (whole grain). However, besan made out of gram will not be considered here. Instead, it will be recorded against item 152 (besan).
Items 160-167: milk and milk products: These items relate to milk: liquid, baby food, and products of milk obtained on transforming milk by heating, churning milk or adding chemicals like acid drops or fermenting agent, in the form of ghee, butter, curd (dahi), casein (chhana), buttermilk, etc. Sweetmeats like "sandesh", "rasagolla", "pera", etc. prepared at home out of milk purchased or home-produced will not be treated as milk products and hence will not be accounted against these items. In case a household prepares these sweetmeats from liquid milk, its consumption will be recorded against milk: liquid (item 160) and against other constituent items of the preparations. Similarly, when milk products like ghee, butter, curd, etc. are obtained from liquid milk by the household and consumed, consumption will be recorded against milk: liquid and not against the particular milk product. For example, suppose a household purchased 30 litres of milk, out of which 15 litres was converted into curd and consumed. In this case the entire amount of 30 litres will be shown against "milk: liquid" only. But if the curd is purchased from the market and consumed by the household, the quantity and value will be recorded against "curd".
Item 160: milk: liquid: This will mean milk as directly obtained from cow, buffalo, goat or any other livestock. Milk sold in bottle or polypack will also be treated as "milk: liquid". The unit of quantity for "milk: liquid" is "litre". Readily drinkable flavoured and bottled milk should be considered as "milk: liquid" and should also be recorded against this item. Milk transformed into curd, casein, ghee, etc. during the reference period for the purpose of household consumption should also be included in this item even if the milk products are not actually consumed during the reference period (a departure from the consumption approach) The same procedure will be followed even if the milk product is intended to be gifted to some other household.
Item 161: baby food: This relates to such baby food the principal constituent of which is milk e.g. Lactogen, Milk Care, Amulspray, etc. Other foods meant for babies like Farex, Cerelac, etc. whose principal constituent is not milk will not be accounted here. Such items should be recorded against "other processed food" (item 308).
Item 166: ice-cream: Ice-cream for which major component is milk will be included against this item. Ice with syrup but without milk sold in the villages as ice-cream will not be included against this item. Instead, it will be accounted against item 297 (other beverages).
Items 170 to 176: edible oil: Oils such as mustard oil, groundnut oil, etc. will be considered as "edible oil" when they are used in cooking. The same oils, when used for toilet purpose, will not be accounted against any of these items in this block, but will be recorded against item 453 (hair oil, shampoo, hair cream) or item 457 (other toilet articles) of Block 10. Two new items "sunflower/soyabean oil" (174) and "rice bran oil" (175) have been introduced in the edible oil sub-group in view of the fact that the use of such oils in cooking is increasing.
Some edible oils, such as groundnut oil, etc., are sold in the market after refining the raw oil obtained by crushing the seeds by some chemical process of neutralisation, bleaching and decolourisation. No distinction will be made between raw and refined oils.
Item 222: other vegetables: This includes green fruits like mango, watermelon, etc. consumed after preparing processed food besides the vegetables listed in the schedule.
Item 248: other fresh fruits: This will include all fresh fruits which are not listed in the schedule. It will also include sugarcane consumed like fruits.
Item 261: sugar | other sources: This will include khandsari.
Item 279: salt: This will include all edible salt, whether iodised or not.
Items 280 - 288: spices: There are a large variety of spices which are generally used in food preparations. Of these items, turmeric and chillies are most commonly used. Items not listed here are mostly purchased in the villages as mixed spice and it may be difficult to collect information on expenditure and consumption of each individual item of spices. For such spices item 288 (other spices) has been provided.
Item 294: mineral water: The term "mineral water" will be understood to mean all packaged drinking water regardless of its mineral content. Purchase of ice, which, in the previous round had been clubbed with this item, may be recorded in Block 10 against item 473.
Item 295: cold beverages: bottled/canned: This includes cold drinks like Thums Up, Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Frooti, etc. The unit of quantity, both for this item and for item 296 (fruit juice and shake), is "litre".
Item 297: other beverages (cocoa, etc.) will include soda water, but not packaged drinking water ("mineral water"), which will be recorded against item 294.
Item 298: chocolate, lozenge, etc. and sugar substitutes: This item will include confectionery such as chocolate, toffee and lozenges, and sugar substitutes such as saccharine and sugar-free cubes.
Item 300: biscuits, cake, pastry, etc: This will include all types of biscuits, as well as cake and pastry. The unit for quantity of cake and pastry is kg, not "no.".
Items 302 and 303: cooked meals: The following rules will be followed. In some respects, they differ from the procedures followed earlier. Note that the term "cooked meals" here does not refer to food cooked in the sample household or in any other household. Such food is always accounted against the ingredients in the household where it is cooked.
Item 302: cooked meals received as assistance or payment: Entries (number and imputed value of cooked meals) will be recorded against this item in the following situations:
- There are factories and offices which have their own canteen providing meals to the employees. Consumption of meals from the canteen by the employees of such institutions, if these are received free of cost, will be considered as perquisites, and their number and imputed value will be recorded in the employee households against item 302. This is a departure from the instructions of earlier rounds.
- For inmates of hostels where meals are provided free of cost by the Government or other organization which runs the hostel, the cost of meals will be imputed at local prices and recorded against item 302 in the students' (single-member) households. This again is a departure from the instructions of earlier rounds.
- Number and imputed value of cooked meals received as Government assistance (e.g under the Midday Meal scheme) will be recorded against item 302. This again is a departure from the instructions of earlier rounds.
Item 303: cooked meals purchased: For cooked meals purchased from market, i.e., from hotel, restaurant, canteen, catering agency, etc., entry will be made against item 303 in the household which purchased the cooked meals, which might have been consumed by household members, guests and other persons. This is a departure from the "use approach" followed for food generally. However, if such meals are served to employees of an enterprise operated by the household, they will be regarded as means of payment for services rendered by the employees, will be considered as consumption of the employees' households against item 302.
Items 305 to 307: pickles, sauce, jam, jelly: Pickles (305), sauce (306) and jam/jelly (307) may be purchased or prepared at home. The usual ingredients approach will be followed for accounting of home-made jam, pickles, etc. However, in a departure from the usual consumption approach for food, consumption of the ingredients (e.g., sugar) of a home-made item such as pickles will be considered as taking place at the moment the ingredients are used up in preparing the food product (e.g., pickles) and not at the time when the food product is actually eaten or ingested.
Item 308: other processed food: Items like purchased snacks or tiffin, food packets, chow mein, soup powder, etc. which have not been covered under items 298-307 will be recorded against this item.
Item 312: supari: Supari (betelnuts) in various forms is available in the market. These are fresh supari, sundried supari, fermented supari, boiled and coloured supari and scented supari. Supari consumed in any of the forms will be accounted for against this item.
Item 315: other ingredients for pan: All other ingredients excepting items 312-314, used for preparing pan, should be included in this item. But tobacco, zarda, surti, kimam, etc. which are also consumed with pan should not be included. Provision for them has been made in the tobacco group. However, products such as "Pan Parag" (pan masala) will be included in this item.
Item 321: cigarettes: Cigarette paper and tobacco are sometimes purchased separately for making cigarettes. In such cases value to be recorded would be the value of tobacco plus the value of paper taken together. The corresponding entry in quantity column will be in terms of number of cigarettes actually made and consumed. Sometimes ganja is consumed in the form of cigarettes. Such cigarettes will be considered under item 330: ganja.
Item 322: leaf tobacco: This will include all leaf tobacco consumed during the reference period in any form. Tobacco leaf burnt and powdered for brushing teeth will also be included against this item.
Item 330: ganja: This will also include ganja consumed in the form of cigarettes.
Item 332: country liquor: This will exclude country liquor prepared at home from its ingredients and consumed. Consumption entries will be made against the ingredients.
Item 335: other intoxicants: This will include drugs used for intoxication but exclude drugs used for medicinal purposes.
Item 342: electricity: The consumption will include meter rent and surcharge for electricity also. Quantity in "standard units" (kwh) actually consumed during the reference period is to be ascertained as far as possible. Usually, the household will be able to report the monthly expenditure accurately but not the number of units. Note that all commodities purchased by the household, including electricity, are to be valued at the purchase price. This means that the entry in the value column will be the expenditure actually incurred, if it is a case of purchase. ("Hooking" is not purchase.) Two common special cases of purchase are discussed below:
(a) Sometimes a fixed amount is charged from the household every month by the electricity board or supply agency, assuming an average consumption level which the agency calculates in some manner using past information, or otherwise. For example, the bill every month may show consumption as 50 units and charges as Rs.150. In this case the entry in the value column will be Rs.150. As for quantity, if the household knows that its consumption during the last 30 days was about 80 units and not 50, then 80 will be recorded. On the other hand, if it has absolutely no idea of the number of units consumed, then 50 may be recorded.
(b) Sometimes the meter is shared with the landlord and the landlord charges a fixed amount X every month from the sample household. This is a case of purchase of electricity from the landlord. Here X will be recorded in the value column and the number of units actually consumed will be ascertained as far as possible and recorded in the quantity column. If the household has absolutely no idea of the quantity then it may be assumed that the landlord is charging at the same rate as the electricity board or supply agency. This rate should then be ascertained and used to calculate the quantity consumed.
Hooking: In case of "hooking", the quantity will have to be approximately ascertained and recorded. Value of this quantity will be imputed at the local price, that is, the price that would have been charged if the connection had been legal.
Generation of electricity: For a household to which electricity is supplied by some person or agency generating electricity by means of a generator or solar power charged battery, the charges will be shown against item 342: electricity. But if the household generates its own electricity using a diesel generator or solar battery, then the fuel charges will be shown, respectively, against "diesel" and "other fuel". Charges for repair and maintenance of such generator or battery will be shown against item 601 (other cooking/ household appliances), column 7 (cost of materials and services for construction and repair).
Item 348: LPG: Usually a fixed quantity of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) is filled in a gas cylinder and supplied for domestic consumption. To find out the value of consumption of LPG during the reference period, the number of days normally taken by the household to use up one full cylinder of gas will have to be first ascertained. Suppose the price of a cylinder of gas is Rs. "V" and the household usually consumes one full cylinder in 'D' days. Then the value of gas consumed during the last 30 days will be calculated as (V x 30)/D and rounded off to the nearest whole number of rupees. However, caution money deposited for getting a gas cylinder should not be considered as consumer expenditure and should not be recorded in this schedule.
Item 352: gobar gas: The value of gobar gas is to be imputed on the basis of value of inputs used for manufacturing gobar gas.
Item 353: petrol (litre) and item 354: diesel (litre): These items have been newly introduced in view of the growing importance of data on energy use. Petrol, diesel, etc. used for generating electricity for lighting, fans, etc., will be recorded here, but not fuel used for one's vehicle.
Item 355: other fuel: This will include any other item used as fuel for cooking, lighting or other household purposes. It will include fuel used for puja, etc., but not fuel used for one's vehicle.
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Definition
P.D.S.: This stands for Public Distribution System, which means the distribution of some essential commodities by the government at subsidised rates through ration shops, fair price shops and control shops. These shops may be owned by the government, local government, a government undertaking, the proprietor of a firm, co-operatives or private persons (individually or jointly) or other bodies like club, trust, etc. The following points may be noted while classifying a purchase as "PDS" or otherwise.
- "Super Bazaars" and co-operative stores will not generally be included under public distribution system. However, when these also sell rationed commodities at controlled prices against ration cards, they will be taken as ration shops for particular commodities.
- For kerosene, "PDS" will also include kerosene depots selling kerosene at controlled prices.
- Distribution of some controlled price commodities such as kerosene may in some areas be made without a system of presentation of ration card. Except in such situations, a purchase which is not made against a ration card will not qualify as a PDS purchase.
- A purchase will be considered as "PDS" irrespective of whether the household uses its own ration card or that of some other household.
- Purchase from PDS shops at prices higher than the PDS prices will also be considered as purchase from PDS as long as the price paid is perceptibly lower than the market price.
- "Super Bazaars" and co-operative stores will not generally be included under public distribution system. However, when these also sell rationed commodities at controlled prices against ration cards, they will be taken as ration shops for particular commodities.
- For kerosene, "PDS" will also include kerosene depots selling kerosene at controlled prices.
- Distribution of some controlled price commodities such as kerosene may in some areas be made without a system of presentation of ration card. Except in such situations, a purchase which is not made against a ration card will not qualify as a PDS purchase.
- A purchase will be considered as "PDS" irrespective of whether the household uses its own ration card or that of some other household.
- Purchase from PDS shops at prices higher than the PDS prices will also be considered as purchase from PDS as long as the price paid is perceptibly lower than the market price.