{
 "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 per-capita monthly value of cereals consumed, ₹ per person per month, without imputation",
  "note": "The ₹ twin of hces-quantities: same cereals, same households, valued in the rupees of the day. Total Cereals here equals the Cereal row of the broad-category table in ₹ (indicator 3) — that redundancy is asserted in scripts/validate.mjs. \"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": {
  "rice_rural": {
   "name": "hces_value_rice_rural_inr",
   "label": "Rice · Rural",
   "color": "#5F6675",
   "data": [
    94.74,
    109.14
   ],
   "unit": "inr"
  },
  "rice_urban": {
   "name": "hces_value_rice_urban_inr",
   "label": "Rice · Urban",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    127.61,
    143.7
   ],
   "unit": "inr"
  },
  "wheat_rural": {
   "name": "hces_value_wheat_rural_inr",
   "label": "Wheat · Rural",
   "color": "#A3A9B4",
   "data": [
    79.48,
    84.15
   ],
   "unit": "inr"
  },
  "wheat_urban": {
   "name": "hces_value_wheat_urban_inr",
   "label": "Wheat · Urban",
   "color": "#C9CED6",
   "data": [
    99.89,
    109.84
   ],
   "unit": "inr"
  },
  "coarse_grains_rural": {
   "name": "hces_value_coarse_grains_rural_inr",
   "label": "Coarse Grains · Rural",
   "color": "#5F6675",
   "data": [
    9.42,
    10.89
   ],
   "unit": "inr"
  },
  "coarse_grains_urban": {
   "name": "hces_value_coarse_grains_urban_inr",
   "label": "Coarse Grains · Urban",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    5.75,
    7.74
   ],
   "unit": "inr"
  },
  "other_cereals_rural": {
   "name": "hces_value_other_cereals_rural_inr",
   "label": "Other Cereals · Rural",
   "color": "#A3A9B4",
   "data": [
    0.77,
    0.58
   ],
   "unit": "inr"
  },
  "other_cereals_urban": {
   "name": "hces_value_other_cereals_urban_inr",
   "label": "Other Cereals · Urban",
   "color": "#C9CED6",
   "data": [
    0.75,
    0.7
   ],
   "unit": "inr"
  },
  "total_cereals_rural": {
   "name": "hces_value_total_cereals_rural_inr",
   "label": "Total Cereals · Rural",
   "color": "#2E4BD8",
   "data": [
    184.42,
    204.76
   ],
   "unit": "inr"
  },
  "total_cereals_urban": {
   "name": "hces_value_total_cereals_urban_inr",
   "label": "Total Cereals · Urban",
   "color": "#5F6675",
   "data": [
    234,
    261.97
   ],
   "unit": "inr"
  }
 }
}