How India spends —
item by item.
261,953 homes · three visits months apart · 1.1M people · ~400 goods & services across 14 levels. Every answer keyed as written — quantity, value, source. Weighted by MULTIPLIER to represent 1.37B Indians. Not an average.
substitutes tracked
A lottery inside buckets
Not pure lottery — stratified random. State is the base, villages split by distance to HQ/city, urban blocks by affluence — then 3 wealth buckets. Random pick inside each. Each home carries a MULTIPLIER — e.g. 5,840 = stands for 5,840 similar homes (400–40k). 261,953 × MULTIPLIER → 1.37B Indians.
3 visits over months — sharper recall, seasons covered
500 questions in one sitting → guesses and fatigue. Split over 3 visits, months apart, with a tablet — 7-day foods asked fresh, winter and summer both captured.
If a home misses a visit, we drop it from the average (§2.2.0) — else we'd undercount. All 3 booklets asked each visit (FDQ/CSQ/DGQ), Visit 3 = monthly total.
One house, three shelves
Tap a shelf — each level is a shelf in the same home.
Kitchen — what you ate
Everyday food. 1 row = 1 home × 1 food. Qty + ₹, source = purchase vs home-grown (farm-gate vs retail).
Explore every level
For policy. One row = what it knows about you. Tap to filter.