India - Household Consumer Expenditure Survey: 64th Round, Schedule 1.0, July 2007 - June 2008

Reference ID

DDI-IND-NSSO-64-SCHEDULE-1.0

Year

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office,NSSO

Sponsor(s)

Ministry of Statistics & P.i, Govenment of Indis - MOSPI -

Collection(s)

National Sample Survey

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Aug 21, 2015

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Religion (Religion)
File: Household Characteristics

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 50297
Invalid: 0

Definition

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.

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Hinduism	39019	77.6%
2	Islam	5618	11.2%
3	Christianity	3515	7.0%
4	Sikkism	981	2.0%
5	Jainism	195	0.4%
6	Buddhism	555	1.1%
7	Zoroastrianism	8	0.0%
9	others	401	0.8%
X	NR	5	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 codes are:
Hinduism .......... 1 Jainism ................. 5
Islam ................. 2 Buddhism ............. 6
Christianity ........ 3 Zoroastrianism ...... 7
Sikhism .............. 4 others .................... 9
X...............NR