All India Family consumer spending surveyUsually conducted by the National Statistical Office (NSO) every five years, is set to start again this year after a long break,
India does not have any official estimates on per capita household expenditure, used to arrive at estimates of poverty levels in different parts of the country and to review economic indicators such as gross domestic product (GDP) since 2011-12. is done. The government had scrapped the findings of the previous survey conducted in 2017-18, citing “data quality” issues.
“It has been decided to conduct the survey from July and we have started planning to train the enumerators who will carry out the 2022-23 survey on the ground,” said an official familiar with the development. Hindu, Usually, the survey is conducted between July and June and this year’s exercise is expected to be completed by June 2023.
Estimates of household monthly per capita consumer expenditure (MPCE) and the distribution of households and individuals into different MPCE categories, based on the survey, may be available only about a year after the field work is completed. The results will include separate data sets for rural and urban parts, and different spending patterns for each state and union territory, as well as different socio-economic groups.
Since mid-May, field enumerators have been asked to participate in training programs to ensure that interviews with households in urban and rural India are conducted sensitively and that desired data is collected effectively. Is. The schedule lists the items on which information is sought.
In November 2019, the Ministry of Statistics and Program Implementation rejected reports that the findings of the 2017-18 survey were withheld due to adverse results reflecting a fall in consumer spending.
The ministry had also said that it is looking at the feasibility of conducting the next survey in 2020-2021 and 2021-22 after “incorporating all data quality refinements into the survey process” as recommended by an expert panel that probed ‘anomalies’ in 2017. was investigating. 18 results.
The official said the survey could not be started in the last two years due to the pandemic.
“… there was a significant increase in the difference not only in the level of consumption patterns but also in the direction of change compared to other administrative data sources such as actual production of goods and services,” the ministry noted in a previous survey.
There were also concerns about “the ability/sensitivity of the survey tool to capture the consumption of social services by households, particularly on health and education”, it said.
The latest one-time surveys on consumer spending and employment and unemployment were launched in 2011-12, when the usually scheduled surveys conducted in 2009-10 coincided with a worldwide recession following the 2008 global financial crisis and the year of drought in India. Used to eat
Although new surveys were required at that time due to unusual circumstances, the survey data for 2009–10 was released in the public domain, contrary to the findings of 2017-18.