India - Household Consumer Expenditure: NSS 61st Round, Schedule 1, July 2004 - June 2005

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-61Rnd-Sch1-July2004-June2005

Year

2004 - 2005

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

Sponsor(s)

M/o Statistics & Programme Implementation, GOI - MOSPI -

Collection(s)

National Sample Survey

Metadata

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Aug 21, 2015

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Religion (B3_q5)
File: Block 3 Part 1_Household Characteristics

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 124633
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Which religion does the household belong to?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Hinduism	95242	76.4%
2	Islam	14790	11.9%
3	Christianity	8571	6.9%
4	Sikhism	2993	2.4%
5	Jainism	393	0.3%
6	Buddhism	1328	1.1%
7	Zoroastrianism	28	0.0%
9	Others	1288	1.0%

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 will be recorded against this item 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.