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The ministry of statistics and programme implementation has started the process of preparation of survey results for the Household Consumer Expenditure Survey (2022-24), minister Rao Inderjit Singh informed Rajya Sabha Monday.. Field work for the first year of the HCES 2022-24 has been completed, and post-survey activities for the preparation of survey results have commenced, the minister noted in response to a question on HCES results in Rajya Sabha...
The ministry has been conducting two back-to-back surveys to verify the results of Household Consumer Expenditure Survey..
The second survey was started in August 2023 and is expected to continue for one year...
The government will likely release the results of both survey together, which would form the basis of computing a new consumer price index series...
The minister also pointed out that while the government had carried out an All India Survey on Household Consumer Expenditure during July 2017- June 2018 under the 75th round of the National Sample Survey, it did not release the results because of methodology issues...
