India - Common Property Resources, Sanitation Hygiene Services: NSS 54th Round, Schedule 31, January 1998 - June 1998

The field officials should attempt to record the value of the collected products evaluated at the local market price. Some of the collected products are usually not sold in the market. If some such products are eventually sold after some kind of processing (as are usually done in certain household manufacturing enterprises), the price at which the processed products are sold will be considered for evaluating the valued of sales as well as collections. If the market price of a products, either in its original form or processed from, in not available, the usual practice of evaluating the labour involved in collection may be adopted.