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National Sample Survey 1994-1995 (51st Round) - Schedule 1.0 - Consumer Expenditure

India, 1994 - 1995
Reference ID
IND_1994_NSS51-SCH1.0_v01_M
Producer(s)
National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO)
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No. of meals taken during last 30 days away from home: On payment (B4_q19)

Data file: NSS51_Sch1_bk_4

Overview

Valid: 15794
Invalid: 238542
Minimum: 0
Maximum: 90
Mean: 5.499
Standard deviation: 14.62
Type: Continuous
Decimal: 0
Width: 10
Range: -
Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question
How many meals do the members of the household usually take on payment basis?
Interviewer instructions
For the purpose of making entry in column "Meals (Payment)". 'Meals received on payment' will mean that the informant has to incur some expense or part with a certain portion of his salary/wage for getting the meals. Meals purchased from hotel, restaurant or an eating house will be considered as 'meals taken away from home on payment' and will have to be counted also for making entry in column "Meals (Payment)".

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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