Interviewer instructions
Column (3): value (Rs.): The amount of expenditure incurred on an item during the reference period of 30 days preceding the date of enquiry will be recorded in this column. As in Block 9, expenditure will include both cash and kind. For some items, however, a different approach is followed. Items of this category include "telephone charges: landline" (item 487), "house rent, garage rent" (item 520), "residential land rent" (item 522), "water charges" (item 540), and "other consumer taxes and cesses" (item 541). For these items, the entry to be made is the amount last paid divided by the number of months for which paid. Thus there may be positive entries against these items even if no expenditure is incurred on them during the last 30 days.