{
 "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 social group (ST/SC/OBC/Others), ₹, without imputation",
  "note": "The \"All\" group is omitted (it equals the All-India MPCE in hces-mpce). Group means are averages over overlapping distributions; \"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": {
  "st_rural": {
   "name": "hces_mpce_social_st_rural_inr",
   "label": "Scheduled Tribe · Rural",
   "color": "#2E4BD8",
   "data": [
    3016,
    3363
   ],
   "unit": "inr"
  },
  "st_urban": {
   "name": "hces_mpce_social_st_urban_inr",
   "label": "Scheduled Tribe · Urban",
   "color": "#5F6675",
   "data": [
    5414,
    6030
   ],
   "unit": "inr"
  },
  "sc_rural": {
   "name": "hces_mpce_social_sc_rural_inr",
   "label": "Scheduled Caste · Rural",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    3474,
    3878
   ],
   "unit": "inr"
  },
  "sc_urban": {
   "name": "hces_mpce_social_sc_urban_inr",
   "label": "Scheduled Caste · Urban",
   "color": "#A3A9B4",
   "data": [
    5307,
    5775
   ],
   "unit": "inr"
  },
  "obc_rural": {
   "name": "hces_mpce_social_obc_rural_inr",
   "label": "Other Backward Class · Rural",
   "color": "#C9CED6",
   "data": [
    3848,
    4206
   ],
   "unit": "inr"
  },
  "obc_urban": {
   "name": "hces_mpce_social_obc_urban_inr",
   "label": "Other Backward Class · Urban",
   "color": "#5F6675",
   "data": [
    6177,
    6738
   ],
   "unit": "inr"
  },
  "others_rural": {
   "name": "hces_mpce_social_others_rural_inr",
   "label": "Others · Rural",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    4392,
    4642
   ],
   "unit": "inr"
  },
  "others_urban": {
   "name": "hces_mpce_social_others_urban_inr",
   "label": "Others · Urban",
   "color": "#A3A9B4",
   "data": [
    7333,
    7832
   ],
   "unit": "inr"
  }
 }
}