Editor's Pick | Union Govt releases findings of household consumption expenditure

For the first time in about 11 years, the government on Saturday released the broad findings of the All-India Household Consumption Expenditure. The exercise was carried out between August 2022 and July 2023. The survey on household consumption expenditure is aimed at generating estimates of household Monthly Per Capita Consumption Expenditure (MPCE) and its distribution separately for the rural and urban sectors of the country. This is also for states and union territories, alongside different socio-economic groups. The Household Consumer Expenditure Survey (HCES) is usually conducted by the National Statistical Office (NSO) every five years. The findings of the last survey, which was conducted in 2017-18 soon after demonetisation of high-value currency notes and the implementation of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) were never released. This was citing “data quality” issues. The latest survey informs that the average monthly per capita consumer expenditure (MPCE) in Indian households has risen by 33.5% since 2011-12 in urban households to Rs 3,510. Whereas rural India’s MPCE increased 40.42% during the same period to reach Rs 2,008. Notwithstanding the increase, the numbers show that the proportion of spending on food has dropped to 46.4% for rural households from 52.9% in 2011-12. In Urban India, peers spent 39.2% of their income on food compared with 42.6% incurred in the 11 years earlier. This reduction could translate into a lower weightage for food prices in the country’s retail inflation calculations. The MPCE numbers do not consider the imputed values of items received free of cost by individuals through various social welfare programmes such as the PM Garib Kalyan Ann Yojana or State-run schemes, which were calculated separately, while including a few non-food items received through such schemes, including computers, mobile phones, bicycles, and clothes. The latest estimates are based on data collected from 2,61,746 households, of which 1,55,014 were in rural areas, spread over all states and union territories, the Ministry stated. The Hindu’s Profiles Kamal Nath | Indira’s ‘third son’ Yulia Navalnaya | Woman of the opposition The Hindu’s Daily News Quiz The Tebhaga movement was one of the largest peasant agitations in the 1940s. It happened in which State? Bengal Gujarat Bihar Punjab To know the answer and to play the full quiz, click here. [logo] Editor's Pick 25 February 2024 [The Hindu logo] In the Editor's Pick newsletter, The Hindu explains why a story was important enough to be carried on the front page of today's edition of our newspaper. [Arrow]Open in browser [Mail icon]More newsletters After 11-year gap, Union Govt releases findings of household consumption expenditure For the first time in about 11 years, the government on Saturday released the broad findings of the [All-India Household Consumption Expenditure](. The exercise was carried out between August 2022 and July 2023. The survey on household consumption expenditure is aimed at generating estimates of household Monthly Per Capita Consumption Expenditure (MPCE) and its distribution separately for the rural and urban sectors of the country. This is also for states and union territories, alongside different socio-economic groups. The Household Consumer Expenditure Survey (HCES) is usually conducted by the National Statistical Office (NSO) every five years. The findings of the last survey, which was conducted in 2017-18 soon after demonetisation of high-value currency notes and the implementation of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) were never released. This was citing “data quality” issues. The latest survey informs that the average monthly per capita consumer expenditure (MPCE) in Indian households has risen by 33.5% since 2011-12 in urban households to Rs 3,510. Whereas rural India’s MPCE increased 40.42% during the same period to reach Rs 2,008. Notwithstanding the increase, the numbers show that the proportion of spending on food has dropped to 46.4% for rural households from 52.9% in 2011-12. In Urban India, peers spent 39.2% of their income on food compared with 42.6% incurred in the 11 years earlier. This reduction could translate into a lower weightage for food prices in the country’s retail inflation calculations. The MPCE numbers do not consider the imputed values of items received free of cost by individuals through various social welfare programmes such as the PM Garib Kalyan Ann Yojana or State-run schemes, which were calculated separately, while including a few non-food items received through such schemes, including computers, mobile phones, bicycles, and clothes. The latest estimates are based on data collected from 2,61,746 households, of which 1,55,014 were in rural areas, spread over all states and union territories, the Ministry stated. The Hindu’s Profiles [Arrow][Kamal Nath | Indira’s ‘third son’]( [Arrow][Yulia Navalnaya | Woman of the opposition]( The Hindu’s Daily News Quiz The Tebhaga movement was one of the largest peasant agitations in the 1940s. 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