India - Survey on Morbidity and Health Care: NSS 60th Round, Schedule 25, January 2004 - June 2005

Although efforts are to made to collect information about the medical expenditure incurred by the household under each of the heads given in items 5 to 16, in some cases the household may not be able to provide item wise expenditure as it might have made a lump sum payment for a number of goods and services taken together. As already mentioned, in such cases information available for the specific items may be recorded against them and that for the remaining items taken together will be recorded against item 17. All the medical expenditure that is not recorded against any of the items 5 to 16 would be recorded against this item.