Interviewer instructions
Column (3): quantity: Against most of the items of Block 5, there is provision to record the quantity figure in the appropriate unit. In Blocks 5 to 8, a quantity figure has two parts - an integer part and a fractional or decimal part. The integer part will be recorded in the left-hand cell and the fractional part will be entered in the right-hand cell in three places of decimals, in case the units are reported either in „kg? or „metre? or „litre?. If the specified unit of quantity is „gram?/ „number?/ „box?/ „pair?/ „standard unit? etc., three zeros (000) have already been printed in the decimal part (right-hand cell) of the space for quantity. This means that quantity, for these items, is to be recorded in whole number, in the left-hand cell. For a number of items, the quantity cells in the schedule are shaded; this means that no quantities are to be recorded.
It may be mentioned that for all the items in block 5, the quantity reported to have been actually consumed is to be recorded. However, normal day-to-day wastage like thrown-away cooked food will not be excluded from the quantity of consumption. Similarly, for recording quantities, loss due to normal cleaning, peeling, etc. will be ignored. But the quantity of impure item, like husk mixed with rice, will be netted out while recording quantity of rice consumed, while no adjustment will be made in value of rice consumption. For example, if the weight of a mixture of rice and husk originally weighing 10 kg becomes only 8 kg after its cleaning, etc., the quantity of rice consumed is to be recorded as 8 kg only. The value of rice, however, will be considered to remain unchanged. On the other hand, an item which is not brought into the consumption process will not be treated as consumed. For example, suppose that 10 kg of rice is purchased for consumption at Rs.100, out of which, 5 kg is either stolen, or damaged by insects, infection, etc., or eaten by rats, and the remaining 5 kg is consumed. Then the quantity of consumption will be 5 kg and the value of consumption, Rs.50.
