Bhubaneswar: The latest Household Consumption Expenditure Survey results shows that the economy of Odisha is on a right and progressive path.
The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation has conducted the Survey during August 2022 to July 2023 and released its report recently after 11 years. The last survey was conducted during 2011-12.
This survey on household consumption expenditure aims at generating estimates of household Monthly Per Capita Consumption Expenditure (MPCE) and its distribution separately for the rural and urban sectors of the country, for States and Union Territories, and for different socio-economic groups.
As per the Survey report, the average monthly per capita consumption expenditure of rural people in Odisha has been increased to Rs 2,950 from Rs 1003 reported in the previous report of 2011-12.
Similarly, the monthly per capita consumption expenditure of urban people in the State has been enhanced from Rs 1941 to Rs 5,187.
That means the expenditure of both rural and urban people of Odisha has been enhanced by 294 per cent and 267 per cent, respectively.
The monthly average expenditure of people of Odisha with imputation stood at Rs 2,996 in rural areas and Rs 5,223 in urban areas, as per the survey report.
The estimates of average MPCE presented here above have been generated considering the imputed value figures of the items received free by the households through various social welfare programmes, in addition to the imputed values of consumption out of home produce, free collection, gifts, loans etc, the report said.
At national level, the survey shows that the average monthly per capita consumption (in current prices) in rural areas was Rs 3,773 and Rs 6,459 in urban areas, almost 2.5 times the monthly consumption recorded in 2011-12. The rural consumption (Rs 1,430 per month in FY2012) has grown at a slightly higher pace than in urban areas (Rs 2,630 in FY23).
The NSSO has been conducting household surveys on consumption/consumer expenditure at regular intervals as part of its rounds, normally of one-year duration.
From 1950-51 to 1973-74, the surveys were done once every year. Later, the NSSO decided to conduct the surveys on consumer expenditure and employment-unemployment together on a large scale, once every five years. This five-year chain broke in 2017-18, when the government decided not to release the survey reports citing several errors.
The survey has covered the whole of the Indian Union except a few inaccessible villages in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Information in the survey has been collected from 8,723 villages and 6,115 urban blocks spread over the entire country covering 2,61,746 households (1,55,014 in rural areas and 1,06,732 in urban areas).
In order to ensure proper representation of households of different economic categories, all the households of a selected village/urban block were classified into three groups depending on a criterion based on land possessed in rural areas and possession of car in urban areas as on the date of the survey.