{
 "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 quantity of cereals consumed, kg per person per month (as published)",
  "note": "The API serves cereal quantities in the without-imputation convention only. Rice + Wheat + Coarse Grains + Other Cereals sum to Total Cereals. Only the 2022-23 and 2023-24 HCES rounds exist in the eSankhyiki API; never spliced with the 2011-12 or earlier NSS CES rounds."
 },
 "dates": [
  "2022-04-01",
  "2023-04-01"
 ],
 "series": {
  "rice_rural": {
   "name": "hces_qty_rice_rural_kg",
   "label": "Rice · Rural",
   "color": "#5F6675",
   "data": [
    5.321,
    5.065
   ],
   "unit": "kg_per_month"
  },
  "rice_urban": {
   "name": "hces_qty_rice_urban_kg",
   "label": "Rice · Urban",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    4.281,
    4.193
   ],
   "unit": "kg_per_month"
  },
  "wheat_rural": {
   "name": "hces_qty_wheat_rural_kg",
   "label": "Wheat · Rural",
   "color": "#A3A9B4",
   "data": [
    3.935,
    3.92
   ],
   "unit": "kg_per_month"
  },
  "wheat_urban": {
   "name": "hces_qty_wheat_urban_kg",
   "label": "Wheat · Urban",
   "color": "#C9CED6",
   "data": [
    3.583,
    3.622
   ],
   "unit": "kg_per_month"
  },
  "coarse_grains_rural": {
   "name": "hces_qty_coarse_grains_rural_kg",
   "label": "Coarse Grains · Rural",
   "color": "#5F6675",
   "data": [
    0.335,
    0.353
   ],
   "unit": "kg_per_month"
  },
  "coarse_grains_urban": {
   "name": "hces_qty_coarse_grains_urban_kg",
   "label": "Coarse Grains · Urban",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    0.168,
    0.196
   ],
   "unit": "kg_per_month"
  },
  "other_cereals_rural": {
   "name": "hces_qty_other_cereals_rural_kg",
   "label": "Other Cereals · Rural",
   "color": "#A3A9B4",
   "data": [
    0.021,
    0.014
   ],
   "unit": "kg_per_month"
  },
  "other_cereals_urban": {
   "name": "hces_qty_other_cereals_urban_kg",
   "label": "Other Cereals · Urban",
   "color": "#C9CED6",
   "data": [
    0.015,
    0.012
   ],
   "unit": "kg_per_month"
  },
  "total_cereals_rural": {
   "name": "hces_qty_total_cereals_rural_kg",
   "label": "Total Cereals · Rural",
   "color": "#2E4BD8",
   "data": [
    9.613,
    9.352
   ],
   "unit": "kg_per_month"
  },
  "total_cereals_urban": {
   "name": "hces_qty_total_cereals_urban_kg",
   "label": "Total Cereals · Urban",
   "color": "#5F6675",
   "data": [
    8.047,
    8.022
   ],
   "unit": "kg_per_month"
  }
 }
}