Value |
Category |
1 |
Cereals & cereal products |
2 |
Pulses & pulse products |
3 |
Milk |
4 |
Milk products (includes milk condensed/powder, baby food, ghee, butter, ice-cream, etc.) |
5 |
Edible oil and vanaspati |
6 |
Vegetables (including garlic, ginger) |
7 |
Fruits & nuts (includes mango, banana, coconut, dates, kishmish, monacca, other dry fruits, etc.) |
8 |
Egg, fish & meat |
9 |
Sugar (includes gur, candy (misri), honey, etc.) |
10 |
Salt & spices (includes dry chillies, curry powder, oilseeds, etc.) |
11 |
Other food items (includes beverages such as tea, coffee, fruit juice and processed food) |
12 |
Pan, tobacco & intoxicants |
13 |
Fuel & light |
14 |
Entertainment (includes cinema, picnic, sports, club fees, video cassettes, cable charges, etc.) |
15 |
Personal care and effects (includes spectacles, torch, umbrella, lighter, etc.) |
16 |
Toilet articles (includes toothpaste, hair oil, shaving blades, etc.) |
17 |
Sundry articles |
18 |
Consumer services excluding conveyance |
19 |
Conveyance (includes porter charges, diesel, petrol, school bus/van, etc.) |
20 |
Rent/ house rent |
21 |
Consumer taxes and cesses (includes water charges, etc.) |
22 |
Medical expenses (non-institutional) |
23 |
Sub-total (items 1 to 22) |
24 |
Medical (institutional) |
25 |
Tuition fees & other fees (includes private tutor, school/college fees, etc.) |
26 |
School books & other educational articles |
27 |
Clothing and bedding |
28 |
Footwear |
29 |
Furniture and fixtures (includes bedstead, almirah, suitcase, carpet, paintings, etc.) |
30 |
Crockery & utensils (includes stainless steel utensils, casseroles, thermos, etc.) |
31 |
Cooking and household appliances |
32 |
Goods for recreation (includes TV, radio, tape recorder, musical instruments, etc.) |
33 |
Jewellery & ornaments |
34 |
Personal transport equipment (includes bicycle, scooter, car, tyres & tubes, etc.) |
35 |
Therapeutic appliances (includes glass eye, hearing aids, orthopaedic equipment, etc.) |
36 |
Other personal goods (includes clock, watch, PC, telephone set, mobile handset, etc.) |
37 |
Repair and maintenance (of residential buildings, bathroom equipment, etc.) |
38 |
Sub-total (items 24 to 37) |
39 |
Average monthly expenditure for items 24 to 37 [item 38 x (30÷365)] |
40 |
monthly household consumer expenditure (item 23 + item 39) |
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.