Table 5.
Household monthly per capita consumer expenditure by household occupation in rural Rajasthan, 2004–05 and 2009-10*
| Item |
MPCE in current prices in 2004–05 by type of household in INR (USD) |
Percent increase in MPCE from 2004–05 to 2009-10† (in constant prices) |
||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Labourer |
Self- employed agriculture |
Other households |
All households |
Labourer | Self-employed agriculture | Other households | All households | |
| (N = 706) | (N = 1696) | (N = 1139) | (N = 3541) | |||||
| All items |
485 (11.1) |
610 (14.0) |
652 (15.0) |
591 (13.6) |
26.2 |
20.9 |
22.8 |
21.0 |
| All food items |
261 (6.0) |
339 (7.8) |
352 (8.1) |
324 (7.4) |
28.3 |
15.7 |
14.9 |
16.8 |
| Cereal foods |
79 (1.8) |
87 (2.0) |
89 (2.0) |
86 (2.0) |
19.0 |
11.2 |
15.5 |
13.3 |
| Non-cereal foods |
182 (4.2) |
252 (5.8) |
264 (6.1) |
238 (5.5) |
32.4 |
17.2 |
14.7 |
18.1 |
| Milk / fruits and related products‡ |
71 (1.6) |
137 (3.2) |
129 (3.0) |
120 (2.8) |
38.4 |
10.3 |
6.8 |
10.5 |
| All non-food items |
224 (5.1) |
271 (6.2) |
300 (6.9) |
267 (6.1) |
23.7 |
27.4 |
32.1 |
26.3 |
| Medical care |
34 (0.8) |
45 (1.0) |
33 (0.8) |
39 (0.9) |
−19.3 |
−18.8 |
3.5 |
−15.0 |
| Education | 8 (0.2) | 17 (0.4) | 20 (0.5) | 16 (0.4) | 82.3 | 81.6 | 140.4 | 90.0 |
*Computed from NSSO’s consumer expenditure survey in 2004–05 and 2009–10.
†Sample size in the 2009–10 survey was 760 households for labourer, 951 in self-employed agriculture and 872 in other households.
‡Milk/fruit and related products are a subset of non-cereal foods.