{
 "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/urban; average MPCE by household employment type, ₹, without imputation",
  "note": "Rural types are published with an agriculture/non-agriculture split; urban types are published aggregated (self-employed, regular wage/salaried, casual labour, others). The \"All\" type is omitted (it equals the All-India MPCE in hces-mpce). \"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": {
  "casual_labour_in_agriculture_rural": {
   "name": "hces_mpce_hhtype_casual_labour_in_agriculture_rural_inr",
   "label": "Casual labour in agriculture · Rural",
   "color": "#5F6675",
   "data": [
    3273,
    3652
   ],
   "unit": "inr"
  },
  "casual_labour_in_non_agriculture_rural": {
   "name": "hces_mpce_hhtype_casual_labour_in_non_agriculture_rural_inr",
   "label": "Casual labour in non-agriculture · Rural",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    3315,
    3653
   ],
   "unit": "inr"
  },
  "casual_labour_urban": {
   "name": "hces_mpce_hhtype_casual_labour_urban_inr",
   "label": "Casual labour · Urban",
   "color": "#A3A9B4",
   "data": [
    4379,
    4964
   ],
   "unit": "inr"
  },
  "others_rural": {
   "name": "hces_mpce_hhtype_others_rural_inr",
   "label": "Others · Rural",
   "color": "#C9CED6",
   "data": [
    4684,
    4747
   ],
   "unit": "inr"
  },
  "others_urban": {
   "name": "hces_mpce_hhtype_others_urban_inr",
   "label": "Others · Urban",
   "color": "#5F6675",
   "data": [
    8619,
    9159
   ],
   "unit": "inr"
  },
  "regular_wage_salaried_in_agriculture_rural": {
   "name": "hces_mpce_hhtype_regular_wage_salaried_in_agriculture_rural_inr",
   "label": "Regular wage/salaried in agriculture · Rural",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    3597,
    3972
   ],
   "unit": "inr"
  },
  "regular_wage_salaried_in_non_agriculture_rural": {
   "name": "hces_mpce_hhtype_regular_wage_salaried_in_non_agriculture_rural_inr",
   "label": "Regular wage/salaried in non-agriculture · Rural",
   "color": "#A3A9B4",
   "data": [
    4533,
    5005
   ],
   "unit": "inr"
  },
  "regular_wage_salaried_urban": {
   "name": "hces_mpce_hhtype_regular_wage_salaried_urban_inr",
   "label": "Regular wage/salaried · Urban",
   "color": "#C9CED6",
   "data": [
    7146,
    7606
   ],
   "unit": "inr"
  },
  "self_employed_in_agriculture_rural": {
   "name": "hces_mpce_hhtype_self_employed_in_agriculture_rural_inr",
   "label": "Self employed in agriculture · Rural",
   "color": "#5F6675",
   "data": [
    3702,
    4033
   ],
   "unit": "inr"
  },
  "self_employed_in_non_agriculture_rural": {
   "name": "hces_mpce_hhtype_self_employed_in_non_agriculture_rural_inr",
   "label": "Self employed in non-agriculture · Rural",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    4074,
    4407
   ],
   "unit": "inr"
  },
  "self_employed_urban": {
   "name": "hces_mpce_hhtype_self_employed_urban_inr",
   "label": "Self employed · Urban",
   "color": "#A3A9B4",
   "data": [
    6067,
    6595
   ],
   "unit": "inr"
  }
 }
}