| Description |
Eleven reports based on this survey have so far been released. Some deal with the variation of consumer expenditure over different sections of population, over states, and over commodities. Others focus on different household characteristics on which information was collected along with consumption data. They include level and pattern of consumer expenditure, consumption of some important commodities, nutritional intake of the population, characteristics of dwellings, energy used by households, sources of household income, differences in level of consumption among socio-economic groups, adequacy of food intake, IRDP assistance & participation in public works, use of durable goods in India, ownership of livestock and cultivation of cereals. The present report is the twelfth of the series. This report studies tobacco consumption habits of the Indian population. Four forms of tobacco consumption were distinguished in the survey: smoking, chewing of tobacco, use of snuff, and use of burnt tobacco powder or paste. Such data were last released for the 43rd round survey of NSSO, which related to the year 1987-88. It may be noted that only data on prevalence of tobacco consumption habits are presented here, and not estimates of expenditure on tobacco. The latter may be found in NSS Report No.404: Consumption of Some Important Commodities in India, 1993-94. The report presents estimates of proportions of persons of different sexes, ages, and social groups in rural and urban areas of each state and u.t. of India with a regular/casual habit of consuming tobacco in each of the four forms distinguished here. |
