India - Participation in Education: 52nd Round, Schedule 25.2, July 1995 - July 1996

Reference ID

IND-MOSPI-NSSO-NSS-52-25.2-1995-V2.

Year

1995 - 1996

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

Sponsor(s)

Govt. Of India - -
Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation - -

Collection(s)

National Sample Survey

Metadata

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Aug 26, 2015

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Social group (SOCIAL_GR)
File: BLOCK 1 & 2 Identification & household particulars

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 72883
Invalid: 0

Definition

it is the social group to which a person belongs.

Questions and instructions

Universe

a block of variables on education related to the population aged 5 to 24 year

Literal question

social group

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0		24	0.0%
1	S.T.	9568	13.1%
2	S.C.	12002	16.5%
9	others	51289	70.4%

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

The social group indicates one of the following :- scheduled tribe, scheduled caste, or others. The group to which the head of the household belongs will be recorded here as the social group of the household. The entry will be in codes. For scheduled tribe, code 1 and for scheduled caste, code 2 will be given. For those not belonging to the scheduled category, code 3 will be given.

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