National Sample Survey 1994-1995 (51st Round) - Schedule 1.0 - Consumer Expenditure
India, 1994 - 1995
Identification
IND_1994_NSS51-SCH1.0_v01_M
National Sample Survey 1994-1995 (51st Round) - Schedule 1.0 - Consumer Expenditure
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| India | IND |
Socio-Economic/Monitoring Survey [hh/sems]
The National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) has been set up by the Government of India in 1950 to collect socio-economic data employing scientific sampling methods. The NSSO conducts regular consumer expenditure surveys as part of its “rounds”, each round being normally of a year's duration and covering more than one subject of study. The surveys are conducted through household interviews, using a random sample of households covering practically the entire geographical area of the country. Surveys on consumer expenditure are being conducted quinquennially on a large sample of households from the 27th round (October 1972 - September 1973) onwards. Apart from these quinquennial surveys, the NSSO collected information on consumer expenditure from a smaller sample of households since 42nd round (July 1986 - June 1987). Nowadays every round of NSS includes a consumer expenditure survey (CES), giving rise to an annual series of consumption data. The field operations of the 51st NSS round commenced on 1st July 1994 and continued up to 30 June 1995. The household consumer expenditure schedule, used for the survey, collected information on quantity and value of household consumption with a reference period of “last 30 days” for some items of consumption. To minimise recall errors, a very detailed item classification was, as usual, adopted to collect information. The field work for the survey was conducted, as usual, by the Field Operations Division of the Organisation. The collected data were processed by the Data Processing Division of NSSO and tabulated by the Computer Centre of Department of Statistics. The reports have been prepared by Survey Design & Research Division (SDRD) of NSSO under the guidance of the Governing Council, NSSO.
The National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) has been carrying out All-India surveys on consumer expenditure. While some of these smaller-scale surveys are spread over a full year and others over six months only, the quinquennial (full-scale) surveys have all been of a full year's duration. Household consumer expenditure is measured as the expenditure incurred by a household on domestic account during a specified period, called reference period. It includes the imputed values of goods and services, which are not purchased but procured otherwise for consumption. In other words, it is the sum total of monetary values of all the items (i.e. goods and services) consumed by the household on domestic account during the reference period. Any expenditure incurred towards the productive enterprises of the households is also excluded from household consumer expenditure. To minimise recall errors, a very detailed item classification is adopted to collect information, including items of food, items of fuel, items of clothing, bedding and footwear, items of educational and medical expenses, items of durable goods and other items. The schedule has also collected some other household particulars including age, sex and educational level etc. of each household member. The schedule design for the survey is more or less similar to that adopted in the previous rounds.
Sample survey data [ssd]
Randomly selected households based on sampling procedure and members of the household
Version
- v01: Edited, anonymous dataset for public distribution.
Scope
The NSSO surveys on consumer expenditure aim to measure the household consumer expenditure in quantitative terms disaggregated by various household characteristics.
The data for this survey is collected in the NSS Schedule 1.0 used for household consumer expenditure. For this round, the schedule had the following blocks.
Blocks 1 and 2 - are similar to the ones used in usual NSS rounds. These are used to record identification of sample households and particulars of field operations.
Block-3: Household characteristics like, household size, principal industry-occupation, social group, land possessed, primary source of energy used for cooking and lighting etc. have been recorded in this block.
Block-4: In this block detailed demographic particulars including age, sex, educational level, marital status, number of meals usually taken in a day etc. have been recorded.
Block-5: In this block cash purchase and household consumption of food, pan, tobacco and intoxicants during the last 30 days have been recorded.
Block-5.1: In this block cash purchase and household consumption of fuel and light during the last 30 days have been recorded.
Block-6: Household consumption of clothing during the last 30 days has been recorded in this block.
Block-7: Household consumption of footwear during the last 30 days has been recorded in this block.
Block-8 : Household expenditure on miscellaneous goods and services and rents and taxes during the last 30 days has been recorded in this block.
Block-8.1 : Monthly household expenditure on education and medical (institutional) goods and services has been recorded here.
Block-8.2 : Monthly household expenditure on medical (non-institutional) goods and services has been recorded here.
Block-9 : Household expenditure for purchase and construction (including repairs) of durable goods for domestic use during the last 30 days has been recorded here.
Block-10 : Perception of households regarding sufficiency of food has been recorded here.
Block-12 : Summary of household consumer expenditure has been recorded here.
Coverage
The survey covers the whole of the Indian Union excepting
(i) Ladakh and Kargil districts of Jammu & Kashmir,
(ii) 768 interior villages of Nagaland (out of a total of 1232 villages) situated beyond five kilometres of the bus route
(iii) 195 villages in Andaman and Nicobar Islands (out of a total of 549 villages) which remain inaccessible throughout the year.
However, in the case of Jammu & Kashmir, the districts Anantnag, Pulwama, Srinagar, Badgam, Baramulla and Kupwara in addition to Ladakh and Kargil districts are kept
outside the geographical coverage of central sample.
The survey used the interview method of data collection from a sample of randomly selected households and members of the household.
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) | Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation(MOSPI) |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Survey Design Reearch Division | National Sample Survey Organisation | Questionnaire Design, Sampling methodology, Survey Reports |
| Field Operations Division | National Sample Survey Organisation | Field Work |
| Data Processing Division | National Sample Survey Organisation | Data Processing |
| Computer Centre | M/o Statistics and Programme Implementation(MOSPI) | Tabulation and Dissemination |
| Name |
|---|
| M/o Statistics & Programme Implementation, GOI |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Governing council and Working Group | GOI | Finalisation of survey study |
Sampling
As usual, a stratified two-stage sampling design has been adopted. The first-stage units are the villages (Panchayat wards in case of Kerala) in the rural areas and urban blocks in the urban areas. The second-stage units are the enterprises for the survey of unorganised manufacture and households for the survey on household consumer expenditure.
Sample Size (FSU's) : The total sample size (i.e. total number of villages and blocks to be surveyed) at all-India level was fixed as 14,072 for the central sample and 16,080 for the state sample.
Stratification : Each district generally forms a separate stratum. However, for Gujarat where NSS regions cut across some district boundaries, parts (viz. group of taluks) of each such district belonging to different NSS-regions from separate strata. If any district (or part thereof lying in an NSS region in case of Gujarat) has a small number of manufacturing enterprises, it is clubbed with the neighbouring district(s) within the same NSS region to form a stratum to ensure minimum allocation of 8 villages at the stratum level as far as possible.
Sampling Frame : Latest available lists of Urban Frame Survey (UFS) blocks have been used as the sampling frame. However, for a few newly declared towns of 1991 census for which UFS lists of blocks are not received, lists of 1991 census EBs are used as the sampling frame.
Two different weights have been provided in each file in the data set. Details are as follows:
- Weight for each sub sample is stored in the variable name : Wgt_SubSample
- Combined subsample weight is stored in the variable name : Wgt_Combined
Survey instrument
The data for this survey is collected in the NSS Schedule 1.0 used for household consumer expenditure. For this round, the schedule had the following blocks.
Blocks 1 and 2 - are similar to the ones used in usual NSS rounds. These are used to record identification of sample households and particulars of field operations.
Block-3: Household characteristics like, household size, principal industry-occupation, social group, land possessed, primary source of energy used for cooking and lighting etc. have been recorded in this block.
Block-4: In this block detailed demographic particulars including age, sex, educational level, marital status, number of meals usually taken in a day etc. have been recorded.
Block-5: In this block cash purchase and household consumption of food, pan, tobacco and intoxicants during the last 30 days have been recorded.
Block-5.1: In this block cash purchase and household consumption of fuel and light during the last 30 days have been recorded.
Block-6: Household consumption of clothing during the last 30 days has been recorded in this block.
Block-7: Household consumption of footwear during the last 30 days has been recorded in this block.
Block-8 : Household expenditure on miscellaneous goods and services and rents and taxes during the last 30 days has been recorded in this block.
Block-8.1 : Monthly household expenditure on education and medical (institutional) goods and services has been recorded here.
Block-8.2 : Monthly household expenditure on medical (non-institutional) goods and services has been recorded here.
Block-9 : Household expenditure for purchase and construction (including repairs) of durable goods for domestic use during the last 30 days has been recorded here.
Block-10 : Perception of households regarding sufficiency of food has been recorded here.
Block-12 : Summary of household consumer expenditure has been recorded here.
Data collection
| Start | End | Cycle |
|---|---|---|
| 1994-07-01 | 1994-09-30 | Sub Round 1 |
| 1994-10-01 | 1994-12-31 | Sub Round 2 |
| 1995-01-01 | 1995-03-31 | Sub Round 3 |
| 1995-04-01 | 1995-06-30 | Sub Round 4 |
Data Access
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Disclaimer and copyrights
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Contacts
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The World Bank Microdata Library | The World Bank | microdata@worldbank.org | http://microdata.worldbank.org |
Metadata production
DDI_IND_1994_NSS51-SCH1.0_v01_M
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Computer Centre | M/O Statistics & Programme Implementation | Documentation of the study |
| Development Data Group | The World Bank | Documentation of the study |
2013-09-04
Metadata version
Version 1.0 (September 2012) - Adapted version of the DDI "DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-51Rnd-Sch1.0-1994" created by India Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation.