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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Religion (RELIGION)
File: Block-3 Household characteristics

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: numeric
Width: 1
Decimals: 0

Valid cases: 100581
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Religion (code)

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Hinduism	78157	77.7%
2	Islam	11808	11.7%
3	Christianity	1805	1.8%
4	Sikhism	745	0.7%
5	Jainism	6636	6.6%
6	Buddhism	1120	1.1%
7	Zoroastrianism	303	0.3%
8	No Response	7	0.0%

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 religion of the household is to be recorded in code. If different members of the household claim to belong to different religions, the religion of the head of the household will be considered as the religion of the household.

The codes are:
Hinduism ............ 1
Jainism .............. 5
Islam ................ 2
Buddhism ........... 6
Christianity ......... 3
Zoroastrianism ...... 7
Sikhism .............. 4
others ................ 9