HCES 2022-23 and 2023-24

[Vaidya]

Hello,

Has anyone looked at the two datasets in microdata.gov.in for HCES 2022-23 and 2023-24?
Are they the same survey or was another survey done within a year? Or is it the same data repackaged?
What is the frequency of HECS surveys done?

Thanks,
Vaidya

[Saket Choudhary]

Hi Vaidya,

These are two separate surveys[1]. Around 2.61 lakh households each but different period (Aug 2022-Jul 2023 vs Aug 2023-Jul 2024), different overall expenditure and also different formats of micro data (nesstar - now defunct afaik and csvs).

If you are planning to work with nestar files here’s a tool: https://github.com/saketkc/nesstarr
Some preliminary exploration with the 22-23 (food) data is here: https://howindiaeats.saketlab.org

These are supposed to be five year, but the gaol of these two back to back was to capture post pandemic expenditure[2]:
> "The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) decided to conduct two consecutive surveys on household consumption expenditure during 2022-23 and 2023-24, once situation normalized after the Covid-19 pandemic. This was the first survey conducted during the period August 2022 to July 2023 and the second survey is conducted during August 2023 to July 2024 throughout the entire country."

Thanks,
Saket
[1] https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2088390&reg=48&lang=2
[2] https://datacatalog.ihsn.org/catalog/12933

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[Vaidya]

Great. Thanks!

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