National Sample Survey 1987-1988 (43rd Round) - Schedule 1.0 - Consumer Expenditure

India, 1987 - 1988

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IND_1987_NSS43-SCH1.0_v01_M

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National Sample Survey Office

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Meals(At Home) (B4_q12)

Data file: Block 4 - Person records

Overview

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Type: Continuous

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Start: 74

End: 75

Width: 2

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Questions and instructions

Literal question

How many meals are taken at home in a day?

Description

Definition

Meal
A 'Meal' is composed of one of more readily cat able (generally cooked) items of food, the usual major constituent of which is cereal food. The meals consumed by a person twice or thrice a day provide him/her the required energy of (calorie) and other nutrients for living and for pursuing his/her normal avocations. A 'meal' as opposed to 'snacks ' as opposed to 'snacks', 'nasta' 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 that, if the total quantum of food in plate is heavy as a meal, the contents of the food plate will also be considered as a real. Sometimes the contents of a 'nasta' may not be very different from the contents of a 'meal'. The difference in quantity will there be the guiding factor for deciding whether the plate is to be led as a 'meal ' or a nasta.

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