Key Points
The gap between urban and rural household consumption has narrowed, and Indian household spending on non-food items has risen, showed the results of Household Consumption Expenditure Survey (HCES) 2022-23 released on Saturday...
Household spending increased 2.6 times in rural areas and 2.5 times in urban areas since the last survey, conducted in 2011-12..
The latest results showed that rural households spent 46% on food and the rest on non-food items, whereas urban households spent 39% on food in 2022-23...
The survey also found that rural and urban areas' consumption was even higher if one imputes the value of items that households receive for free via social welfare programmes..
Rural households spent 2.3% more, i.e., 3,860 per month including value of free goods, whereas urban households spent Rs 6,521 or 1% more.. "Among the states, MPCE (monthly per capita consumer expenditure) is the highest in Sikkim for both rural and urban areas (Rural - 7,731 and Urban - Rs 12,105)..
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