Household Consumer Expenditure and Employment Situation in India 1995-96

Abstract

In 1972 the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) began a quinquennial series of all-India surveys on consumer expenditure, employment & unemployment. In addition to this, an annual series of consumer expenditure surveys was started in 1986. These surveys were carried out in NSS rounds which had other subjects of enquiry as their focus. Apart from the main subject(s) of enquiry, a consumer expenditure schedule was canvassed in four households (two households up to the 48th round, 1992) in every surveyed village and urban block. The schedule was enlarged from the 45th round (1989-90) onwards, to collect some basic information on employment and unemployment. As a result, an annual series of data on both consumer expenditure and employment-unemployment has since then been available.