National Sample Survey 1998 (54th Round) - Schedule 1.0 - Household Consumer Expenditure
India, 1998
Identification
IND_1998_NSS54-SCH1.0_v01_M
National Sample Survey 1998 (54th Round) - Schedule 1.0 - Household Consumer Expenditure
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| India | IND |
Socio-Economic/Monitoring Survey [hh/sems]
The National Sample Survey Office (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 National Sample Survey (NSS) includes a consumer expenditure survey, giving rise to an annual series of consumption data.
The National Sample Survey Office has been regularly carrying out the survey on consumer expenditure covering all India as part of National Sample Survey (NSS).
The field operations of the 54th NSS round started on 1st January 1998 and continued up to 30th June 1998. 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.
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 minimize 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]
- households
- members of the household
Version
2012-05-27
Scope
The scope of the study includes:
- Household characteristics
- Cash purchase and household consumption of food, pan, tobacco and intoxicants during the last 7 days
- Cash purchase and household consumption of fuel and light during the last 30 days
- Monthly household consumption of clothing and footwear
- Household expenditure on miscellaneous goods and services and rents and taxes during the last 30 days
- Annual household expenditure on education and medical (institutional) goods and services
- Monthly household expenditure on medical (non-institutional) goods and services
- Monthly household expenditure for purchase and construction (including repairs) of durable goods for domestic use
- Perception of households regarding sufficiency of food
Coverage
The survey covered the whole of the Indian Union except Ladakh & Kargil districts of J & K, 768 interior villages of Nagaland situated beyond 5 kms. of the bus route and 195 villages of A & N Islands which remained inaccessible throughout the year.
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| National Sample Survey Office | Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MOSPI) |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Survey Design Research Division | National Sample Survey Office | Questionnaire Design, Sampling methodology, Survey Reports |
| Field Operations Division | National Sample Survey Office | Field Work |
| Data Processing Division | National Sample Survey Office | Data Processing |
| Computer Centre | M/o Statistics and Programme Implementation(MOSPI) | Tabulation and Dissemination |
| Name |
|---|
| Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Governing Council and Working Group | Government of India | Finalization of survey study |
Sampling
A stratified sampling design is adopted in this round. The first stage units are census villages ( panchayat wards in case of Kerala) in the rural sector and the NSSO Urban Frame Survey (UFS) blocks in the urban sector. The ultimate stage units are households in both the sectors.
Sampling frame for first stage units
(a) Rural : The lists of census villages of 1991 population census (1981 census list for J & K) constitute the sampling frame for the rural sector. For Kerala, however, the list of panchayat wards has been used as the sampling frame for selection of panchayat wards in the rural sector. For Nagaland, the villages located within 5 kms. of a bus route constitute the sampling frame, whereas, for Andaman & Nicobar Islands, the list of accessible villages constitutes the sampling frame.
(b) Urban: The lists of latest UFS blocks have been considered as the sampling frame for all cities and towns.
Stratification
(a) Rural: At first, the following three strata (namely strata types 1, 2 & 3) are formed at the level of each state/u.t.:-
Stratum 1: list of uninhabited villages (as per '91 census).
stratum 2: villages with population 1 to 50 (including both the boundaries)
stratum 3: villages with population more than 15,000
Strata types 1, 2 & 3 above are formed provided there are at least 10 villages in each of the strata types in the state/u.t. as per 1991 population census. Otherwise, these villages are included in the general strata as described below:
After formation of the strata types 1, 2 & 3 (wherever applicable), the remaining villages of the state/u.t. are considered for formation of general strata. Each district with population less than 2 million as per 1991 census forms a separate stratum (however, district having a population of 2 million or more is divided into a number of strata as per usual procedure followed in NSS). For Gujarat, some districts cut across NSS regions. In such cases, the part of a district falling in an NSS region forms a separate stratum.
(b) Urban: Strata are formed within NSS region by grouping towns.
Two different weights have been provided in each file in the database.
- Weight for each subsample is stored in the variable Wgt_SubSample
- Combined subsample weight is stored in the variable 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. has been recorded.
Block-5: In this block cash purchase and household consumption of food, pan, tobacco and intoxicants during the last 7 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: Monthly household consumption of clothing has been recorded in this block.
Block-7: Monthly household consumption of footwear 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 : Annual 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 : Monthly household expenditure for purchase and construction (including repairs) of durable goods for domestic use 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1998-01-01 | 1998-03-31 | Subround 1 |
| 1998-04-01 | 1998-06-30 | Subround 2 |
The survey used face-to-face interview method of data collection from a sample of randomly selected households and members of the household.
Data Access
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Contacts
| Name | URL |
|---|---|
| Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MOSPI) | http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/site/home.aspx |
Metadata production
DDI_IND_1998_NSS54-SCH1.0_v01_M
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Computer Centre | Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation | Documentation of the study |
| Development Data Group | World Bank | Revision of the study documentation |
2012-09-11
Metadata version
v02 (September 2016)
- Study ID, Title, Abstract, Series Information and Scope were edited
v01 (September 2012)
- DDI prepared by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (http://164.100.34.62/index.php/catalog/93/)