India - Participation and Expenditure in Education: NSS 64th Round, Schedule 25.2, July 2007 - June 2008

Reference ID

Schedule 25.2

Year

2007 - 2008

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

Sponsor(s)

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

Collection(s)

National Sample Survey

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Social Group (SOCIAL_GROUP)
File: Block-3 Household characteristics

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 100581
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Social group (code)

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	scheduled tribe	13773	13.7%
2	scheduled caste	17720	17.6%
3	other backward class	37634	37.4%
9	others	31454	31.3%

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 is to indicate 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.