NSSO Data Analysis

Consumer Expenditure surveys of NSS are the primary and only source of large scale data on the various level of living, the pattern of consumption & expenditure and well being of households at the town, district, state and country level in both rural and urban areas. Following are the major household consumer expenditure surveys conducted by NSS: Rounds Year 27 th Round 1972-73 32 nd Round 1977-78 38 th Round 1983 43 rd Round 1987-88 50 th Round 1993-94 55 th Round 1999-00 61 st Round 2004-05 66 th Round 2009-10 68 th Round 2011-12 Consumption and Expenditure data of the following items are available in the latest Consumer Expenditure survey of NSS. List of Items: Cereals Cereals substitutes Pulses and pulse products Milk and milk products Salt and sugar Edible oil Egg, Fish and Meat Vegetables Fresh Fruits Dry Fruits Spices Beverages Served processed food Packaged processed food Pan Tobacco Intoxicants Fuel and Light Clothing ...

The following post is basically designed for the understanding of extraction of NSSO Data. It contains STATA codes for extraction of unit-level survey data from NSSO's 71st round on Health and Education consumption in the ASCII format given to users to .dta format of STATA. About the NSSO data The NSSO data is provided in ASCII format and is flat/line sequential, also called a fixed width file. The data is accompanied by an excel sheet with the details of the layout of the data. The entire dataset is provided in ten txt files covering eleven blocks of data. To import any txt file into STATA, one has to first create a dictionary file (.dct) following the layout of the data, and then import it into STATA using the infix command through the dictionary file. The STATA code for extraction: infix dictionary { - - - - - - } infix using "<insert file path to dictionary file>", using ("<insert file path name to .txt file>") For m...