The All-India Household Consumer Expenditure Survey is set to resume this year after a prolonged break.
- The survey is usually conducted by the National Statistical Office (NSO) every five years.
- Typically, the Survey is conducted between July and June and this year’s exercise is expected to be completed by June 2023.
- India has not had any official estimates on per capita household spending as it is arrived at estimates of poverty levels in different parts of the country and to review economic indicators such as the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), since 2011-12.
- Estimates of household monthly per capita consumer expenditure (MPCE) and the distribution of households and persons over different MPCE classes, based on the Survey, may only become available about a year after the field work is completed.
- The results will include separate data sets for rural and urban parts, and also splice spending patterns for each State and Union Territory, as well as different socio-economic groups.
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