Will take data of benefits to families from government schemes
Will take data of benefits to families from government schemes
The Center has started the process of conducting the five-year Household Consumption Expenditure Survey (HCES) this month, and the questionnaire for the survey has been changed to capture data about items received free of cost from the government’s welfare programmes.
Field work for the survey, which for the first time will involve three visits in a year to assess spending patterns in selected households, will begin soon, Rao Inderjit Singh, minister of state with independent charge of statistics and program implementation, informed the public. did. Assembly in a written reply.
Conducted every five years, the HCES is used to review estimates of poverty levels as well as key economic indicators such as gross domestic product (GDP). The survey results are also used for updating the consumption basket and for base revision of the Consumer Price Index (CPI).
The survey was last conducted in 2017-18, but its findings were not published, citing data quality concerns, so the last publicly available official estimates on consumer spending are from 2011-12.
“The Survey on Household Consumption Expenditure is planned to collect varying levels of information from households on consumption of food and non-food items,” Mr. Singh explained. “The process of conducting HCES has been started in July, 2022,” he said, adding that the training of enumerators was going on at present.
“Appropriate provision has been made in the questionnaire to obtain information about the quantum of items received free of cost under various government-sponsored social welfare programmes,” the minister said, adding that the data collection methods of the survey have been revised and the questionnaire Length of ‘optimized to reduce promotion time’.
While the survey data for 2011-12 was collected in single visits to selected households, in the case of HCES July 2022-June 2023, a questionnaire to collect information on household consumption across three visits through computer aided personal interviews The format was adopted. CAPI), he pointed out.