Interviewer instructions
Household consumer expenditure is the sum total of monetary values of all goods and services consumed (out of purchase or procured otherwise) by the household on domestic account during a specific reference period. The definition of household consumer expenditure and the procedure for evaluating it will be the same as for Schedule 1.0.
The household consumer expenditure during last 30 days is to be ascertained, through direct questions, out of the following five sources:
1) purchase,
2) home-grown/home-produced stock,
3) receipt in exchange of goods and services,
4) transfer receipts such as gifts, loans, charities, etc.,
5) free collection.
These will be recorded in whole number in rupees against items 10 to 14. The total of items 10 to 14 will be recorded against item 15.
The items of consumption are classified into four groups and three different approaches viz. (i) consumption approach, (ii) expenditure approach and (iii) first-use approach, are followed for defining consumption of items.
Procedure for evaluation: If an item is purchased and consumed by a household, the value of consumption can be taken as its purchase value. But, the value of an item consumed out of commodities received in exchange of goods and services, home-grown/home-produced stock, transfer receipts or free collection requires imputation. The rule for imputation of value of consumption of commodities is given below:
1) the value of goods received in exchange of goods and services will be imputed at the rate of average local retail prices prevailing during the reference period. However, the judgement of the respondent about the price of the goods purchased in exchange is to be taken into account;
2) the value of home-produce will be imputed at the ex-farm or ex-factory rate. This should not include any element of distributive charges;
3) the value of consumption out of gifts, loans, free collection, etc., will be imputed at the average local retail prices prevailing during the reference period;
4) the value of consumption out of purchase will be the value at which the purchase was made.
Special care is to be taken to ensure that the items which are consumed by the household out of home grown stock as well as from other sources like free collection, gifts, loans etc. do not get missed out and necessary probing is to be done to include such consumption, if any, in the total consumption of the household.
