{
 "meta": {
  "dossier": "hces",
  "frequency": "annual",
  "base": "survey 2022-23 & 2023-24",
  "source": "MoSPI, National Statistical Office",
  "vintage": "2026-08-07",
  "mock": false,
  "geo": "IND",
  "latestPeriod": "2023-04",
  "releaseDate": null,
  "revisionPolicy": "Survey estimates are final on release. Each round is a cross-section; the two rounds are comparable by design but are never averaged or chained.",
  "coverage": "All India, rural and urban; Gini coefficient of per-capita consumption expenditure",
  "note": "\"Without imputation\" is the headline MPCE convention (comparable across the two rounds); \"with imputation\" adds the imputed value of items received free of cost through social welfare programmes. Only the 2022-23 and 2023-24 HCES rounds exist in the eSankhyiki API — the 2011-12 and earlier NSS CES rounds are not served and are methodologically different; these series must never be spliced with them."
 },
 "dates": [
  "2022-04-01",
  "2023-04-01"
 ],
 "series": {
  "rural": {
   "name": "hces_gini_rural",
   "label": "Rural (without imputation)",
   "color": "#2E4BD8",
   "data": [
    0.266,
    0.237
   ],
   "unit": "gini"
  },
  "urban": {
   "name": "hces_gini_urban",
   "label": "Urban (without imputation)",
   "color": "#5F6675",
   "data": [
    0.314,
    0.284
   ],
   "unit": "gini"
  },
  "rural_imputed": {
   "name": "hces_gini_rural_imputed",
   "label": "Rural (with imputation)",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    0.261,
    0.23
   ],
   "unit": "gini"
  },
  "urban_imputed": {
   "name": "hces_gini_urban_imputed",
   "label": "Urban (with imputation)",
   "color": "#A3A9B4",
   "data": [
    0.309,
    0.279
   ],
   "unit": "gini"
  }
 }
}