India - Household Consumer Expenditure, NSS 58th Round, Schedule 1, July 2002 - December 2002

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-58Rnd-Sch1.0-2002

Year

2002

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 29, 2016

Last modified

Sep 02, 2016

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Social Group (B3_q6)
File: Blocks 1,3,10_Household Characteristics

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 32668
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	3661	11.2%
2	scheduled caste	5714	17.5%
3	other backward class	11156	34.1%
9	others	12137	37.2%

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 other backward class will be indicated against this item in terms of the specified codes.