Table 2 Average per capita calories consumed per day per household and the number and percentage of households with insufficient calorie intake among a nationally representative sample of households, National Sample Survey, India 2011–2012

Legislators & senior officials

2382

793

2490

787

26.3

33

5.7

14

Corporate managers

2176

598

2155

553

33.8

1314

16.5

897

General managers

2377

595

2594

766

26.4

10

5.4

7

Science professionals

2420

578

2489

700

18.8

24

8.8

69

Life science & health professionals

2453

1158

2605

758

27.0

63

3.3

17

Teaching professionals

2294

618

2364

612

28.6

264

8.8

92

Other professionals

2226

576

2233

593

27.9

310

17.2

251

Science associate professionals

2200

644

2338

680

34.9

45

10.8

49

Life science & health associate professionals

2321

543

2277

619

22.0

52

14.2

49

Teaching associate professionals

2267

592

2318

690

28.0

540

13.1

109

Other associate professionals

2275

629

2296

651

23.5

195

13.0

169

Office clerks

2306

708

2243

1147

23.3

263

15.3

234

Customer services clerks

2193

444

2224

572

30.4

39

12.5

38

Personal & protective service workers

2172

607

2222

613

34.9

644

16.7

403

Models, sales persons & demonstrators

2123

568

2110

630

38.2

1238

19.8

798

Market oriented skilled agricultural & fishery workers

2261

634

2165

601

27.5

4388

18.0

323

Subsistence agricultural & fishery workers

2165

540

2149

308

33.9

175

4.6

14

Extraction & building trades workers

2096

581

2020

508

39.2

1652

22.8

661

Metal, machinery & related trades workers

2168

578

2146

666

34.8

301

19.6

288

Precision, handicraft, printing & related trades workers

2025

467

2119

585

45.2

151

20.3

109

Other craft & related trades workers

2099

568

2107

575

38.1

616

19.4

326

Stationary plant & related operators

2134

586

2146

578

33.5

106

21.2

50

Machine operators & assemblers

2155

548

2196

552

34.7

204

16.7

189

Drivers & mobile-plant operators

2146

564

1991

473

35.3

775

26.0

464

Sales & services elementary occupations

2128

579

2054

559

36.3

408

26.7

505

Agricultural, fishery & related laborers

2086

520

2071

504

39.3

2215

21.3

215

Mining, construction, manufacturing & transport laborers

2116

535

2110

630

38.8

2009

23.9

707

All households

2172

590

2163

636

33.8

18,034

18.5

7047