Questionnaires
Schedule 1.0 consists of several blocks to obtain detailed information on the consumption expenditure and other particulars of the sample household.
It has been decided that two types of Schedule 1.0 viz. Schedule Type 1 and Schedule Type 2 will be canvassed in this round. Schedule Type 1 is similar to Schedule 1.0 of NSS 61st round. Schedule Type 2 has different reference period (7 days) for some items of food, pan, tobacco and intoxicants as compared to 30 days' reference period for these items in Schedule Type 1.
Schedule Type 1 uses the same reference period system as used in the 61st and 50th round consumer expenditure surveys (where there was only one schedule type). Schedule Type 1 requires that for certain items (Group I items), the same household should report data for two reference periods - "Last 30 days" and "Last 365 days".
Schedule Type 2 has the same reference periods as Schedule Type 2 (Sch.1.0) of NSS 60th round. For Group I items, the reference period used in Schedule Type 2 is "Last 365 days".
As in the 60th round, items of food, pan, tobacco and intoxicants (Food-plus category) are split into 2 blocks instead of being placed in a single block.
- The first block (Block 5.1) consists of the item groups cereals, pulses, milk and milk products, sugar and salt (the "F1" category). This block has a reference period of 30 days in both Schedule Type 1 and Schedule Type 2.
- Block 5.2 consists of the other items of food, along with pan, tobacco and intoxicants (the item category "F2+"). This block is assigned a reference period of "Last 30 days" in Schedule Type 1 and a reference period of "Last 7 days" in Schedule Type 2.
Thus Schedule Type 1, like Schedule 1.0 of NSS 61st round, uses the "Last 30 days" reference period for all items of food, and for pan, tobacco and intoxicants.
Schedule 1.0 consists of several blocks to obtain detailed information on the consumption expenditure and other particulars of the sample household.
WHAT IS NEW IN THE SCHEDULE (compared to the 61st/64th round)
- There are two schedule types. Schedule Type 1 is similar to the 61st round schedule. It uses, for some blocks, a double reference period - "last 30 days" and "last 365 days". Schedule Type 2 uses different reference periods of 7, 30 and 365 days for different items. For any particular block, it uses only one reference period.
- Unlike the 61st round schedule (Block 3), there is no question on possession of ration card or on ration card type.
- Unlike the 61st round (Block 3), there is no question on food assistance schemes of the Government from which the household has benefited.
- Block 3 will have a question on use of the internet by household members during the last 30 days.
- In both schedule types, the food-plus item category (food, pan, tobacco & intoxicants) has been split into 2 blocks: Block 5.1 and Block 5.2. For Block 5.1 (cereals, pulses, milk & milk products, sugar and salt), both schedule types use a 30-day reference period. For the remaining food groups, and for pan, tobacco and intoxicants, Schedule Type 1 uses "last 30 days" and Schedule Type 2 uses "last 7 days".
- Foodgrains such as chira, khoi, etc., if reported as obtained from home-produced paddy, may be recorded as consumption out of home produce against chira, khoi, etc., instead of against "rice".
- In Block 5.2, the items "supari", "lime", "katha", and "other ingredients for pan" have been merged to form a single item (312) "ingredients for pan (gm)".
- "Cornflakes", "soyabean", "sunflower/soyabean oil" and "rice bran oil" have been dropped from the list of food items.
- In Block 5.2, item 334, the description "foreign liquor or refined liquor" has been replaced by "foreign/ refined liquor or wine".
- All second-hand purchases of books and journals (and magazines) will be recorded against a separate item (401) in Block 9.
- A new item (406) for "educational CD" has been introduced in the block on education and institutional medical care (Block 9).
- In Block 9, the item (404) "stationery, photocopying charges" has replaced the old item "stationery".
- No information on insurance premium paid will be collected in the schedule.
- In Block 10, there is only one item (420) for medicine. In the 64th round, medicine in Block 10 was split into five items.
- In Block 10, the item (436) "VCD/DVD hire (incl. instrument)" has replaced the item "video cassette/VCR/VCP hire".
- "Telephone charges: mobile" (item 488) in Block 10 will be an unstarred item, that is, actual expenditure incurred during the last 30 days will be recorded. "Telephone charges: landline" (item 487) will remain a starred item, i.e., entry = amount last paid divided by no. of months for which paid.
- The item "tape recorder, CD player" has been dropped from Block 11. Item 562 has been modified slightly to "VCR/VCD/DVD player".
- The item (622) "PC/laptop/other peripherals incl. software" has replaced the old item "personal computer" (Block 11).
- Schedule Type 2 has a block (Block 13) on "Perception of household regarding sufficiency of food".