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Missing observations are not zero and have not been interpolated.","Survey-round labels retain their original years. Structured date coverage is a calendar-year envelope, not an assumed fiscal-year or month boundary.","Monthly per-capita consumption expenditure under the Modified Mixed Reference Period. Survey estimates include imputed values for home-produced consumption where the report specifies them.","Dollar equivalents use the site’s reference rate of $1 = ₹96.32 on 2 October 2026, not historical exchange rates."],"license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","scope":"India Dispatch's original compiled tables and editorial text"},"sourceRights":"Underlying source publishers retain their own rights. This license does not grant rights to publisher documents, branding or other third-party material.","attribution":"India by the numbers, Household consumption, 2023-24, https://data.indiadispatch.com/household/household-consumption. Source: Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation.","valueRepresentation":"Table cells are the publication's formatted observations, with units retained. Missing observations are not zero. 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