India - Survey on Level of Living of Tribals: NSS 44th Round, Schedule 29.1, July 1988 - June 1989

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-44Rnd-Sch29dot1-1988-89

Year

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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Religion (code) (B5_q8)
File: Block-5-characteristics-sample household-Records

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 16419
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0		29	0.2%
1	Hinduism	11496	70.0%
2	Islam	163	1.0%
3	Christianity	2676	16.3%
4	Sikhism	1	0.0%
5	Jainism	1	0.0%
6	Buddhism	552	3.4%
7	Zoroastrianism	6	0.0%
8	Traditional tribal	1355	8.3%
9	others	140	0.9%

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

6.5.6 the religion of the household in terms of the specified code will be
recorded against this item. If different members of the household claim to have different religions, the religion of the head of the household will be considered as the religion of the household. In case a tribal household claims to belong to a religion other than those mentioned against religion codes 1 to 7, it is to be ascertained as to whether the proclaimed religion is a traditional tribal religion or not. If yes, the entry against this item will be 8 : otherwise code 9 will be entered against this item.