India - Household Consumer Expenditure: NSS 38th Round, Schedule 1, January - December 1983

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-38Rnd-Sch1.0-1983

Year

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 22, 2015

Last modified

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Social Group Code (B3_1_q8)
File: Blocks 1,3 and 10- Household Characteristics

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 117604
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	12477	10.6%
2	Scheduled caste	17879	15.2%
3	Neo-Buddhist	627	0.5%
9	Others	86621	73.7%

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 or neo Buddhist will be indicated against this item in terms of the specified codes.