National Sample Survey 1995-1996 (52nd Round) - Schedule 1.0 - Consumer Expenditure

India, 1995 - 1996

Reference ID

IND_1995_NSS52-SCH1.0_v01_M

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National Sample Survey Organisation

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Meals (Others) (B4_v18)

Data file: NSS52_Sch1_bk_4

Overview

Valid: 25525

Invalid: 212990

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 90

Mean: 7.403

Standard deviation: 14.933

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 66

End: 67

Width: 2

Range: -

Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question

How many free meals do the members of the household usually take from other sources?

Interviewer instructions

Meals consumed as guests in other households, will also be taken into account while making entries in column (18) .

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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