India - Household Consumer Expenditure, NSS 51th Round, Schedule 1, July 1994 - June 1995

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-51Rnd-Sch1.0-1994

Year

1994 - 1995

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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Jul 27, 2016

Last modified

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Social Group Code (B3_q4)
File: Blocks 1,3_Household Characteristics

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 53152
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Which social group do you belong to?
Do you come under scheduled caste or scheduled tribe or others category?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Scheduled Tribe	5812	10.9%
2	Scheduled Caste	8668	16.3%
9	Others	38672	72.8%

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 or scheduled caste will be indicated against this item in terms of the specified codes which are :

description code
scheduled tribe ............. 1
scheduled caste ............. 2
others ...................... 9

Those who do not come under any one of the first two groups will be assigned code 9 meant to cover all other categories. Neo-buddhists of Maharashtra and neighbouring states, however, will be given code 2. In case, different members belong to different household groups, the group to which the head of the household belongs will be considered as the 'household social group' and the group code appropriate for the head of the household will be assigned.