Dataset · Welfare
Ration cards in circulation (including temporary cards) in each district of Kerala in July 2014, with the persons on them (adults, non-adults and total), ration units, permits and the number of authorised ration dealers (ARDs, i.e. ration shops), as printed in Table 14.1 'Details of Ration Cards in Circulation July-14' of the Department of Economics and Statistics' Statistics for Planning 2014. Units count each adult as two and each non-adult as one (adults x 2 + non-adults equals the printed units in every row). Each row is one district (or the Kerala total) and one measure. Kerala had 8,313,278 ration cards covering 37,074,587 persons and 14,319 ration shops. It is the only district-wise count of ration shops before the e-PoS register (PRI-WEL-0001, from 2019); use it as the pre-NFSA baseline.
The first 5 of 105 rows
| period | period_type | geo_level | geo_code | geo_name | indicator | measure | region | ref_period | ref_period_type | is_partial_period | value | unit | qa_flag | notes | district_as_per_source |
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| 2014 | year | state | 32 | Kerala | ration_cards_and_shops_2014 | members_adults | State | 2014-07 | month | False | 30026143.0 | number | TOTAL | ||
| 2014 | year | state | 32 | Kerala | ration_cards_and_shops_2014 | members_minors | State | 2014-07 | month | False | 7048444.0 | number | TOTAL | ||
| 2014 | year | state | 32 | Kerala | ration_cards_and_shops_2014 | members_total | State | 2014-07 | month | False | 37074587.0 | number | TOTAL | ||
| 2014 | year | state | 32 | Kerala | ration_cards_and_shops_2014 | permits | State | 2014-07 | month | False | 6311.0 | number | TOTAL | ||
| 2014 | year | state | 32 | Kerala | ration_cards_and_shops_2014 | ration_cards | State | 2014-07 | month | False | 8313278.0 | number | TOTAL |
16 columns, in file order.
periodperiod_typegeo_levelgeo_codegeo_nameindicatormeasureregionref_periodref_period_typeis_partial_periodvalueunitqa_flagnotesdistrict_as_per_sourcePlease cite this dataset when you use it:
Policy and Research Initiative (2026). District-wise ration cards, members, units, permits and ration shops in Kerala, July 2014 [Dataset]. PRI Data Repository. /data/ration-cards-and-shops-2014-kerala