Consumer Expenditure Behaviour of Households in Rural Haryana: A Decadal Analysis

The present study aims to analyse the Consumer Expenditure Behaviour of Households in Rural Haryana and also investigate the relationship between household income and consumption expenditure. The secondary data, collected from the published reports of NSS 50^th-68^th round ranging from the period of 1993 to 2012, is used for estimating and analysing the specific objectives of the study. Statistical tools like regression and compound annual growth rate is used to analyse the results. Regression analysis is used to measure the relationship between household income and consumption expenditure in Haryana. Findings revealed that both rural and urban household percentage share of food expenditure is decreasing during the study period on the other hand non-food expenditure is increasing in both rural and urban household. The compound annual growth rate of food expenditure is greater in urban Haryana. But the compound growth rate of non-food expenditure is noticed greater in the rural Haryana. The regression outcome shows that there is a significant relationship between Household Consumption Expenditure and Household Income in Haryana.