India - Household Consumer Expenditure: NSS 55th Round, Schedule 1, July 1999 - June 2000

MoSPI-NSS
Reference ID DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-55Rnd-Sch1-July1999-June2000
Year 1999 - 2000
Country India
Producer(s) National Sample Survey Office
Sponsor(s) M/o Statistics & Programme Implementation, GOI - MOSPI -
Collection(s)
National Sample Survey
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Social Group (B3_q6)
File: Blocks 1,3,12_Household Characteristics
Overview
Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1
Valid cases: 120309
Invalid: 0
Questions and instructions
Literal question
Which social group does the household belong to?
Categories
ValueCategoryCases
0 Invalid 220 0.2%
1 Scheduled Tribe 13326 11.1%
2 Scheduled Caste 18740 15.6%
3 Other backward castes 38389 31.9%
9 Others 49634 41.3%
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.
Interviewer instructions
Whether or not the household belongs to scheduled tribe, scheduled caste or other backward class will be indicated against this item in terms of the specified codes which are:

scheduled tribe - 1, scheduled caste - 2, other backward class - 3, others - 9.

Those who do not come under any one of the first three social groups will be assigned code 9 meant to cover all other categories. In case different members belong to different social groups, the group to which the head of the household belongs will be considered as the 'social group' of the household.

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