India - Household Consumer Expenditure: NSS 43rd Round, Schedule 1, July 1987 - June 1988

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-43Rnd-Sch1.0-1987

Year

1987 - 1988

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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Religion (B3_1_q4)
File: Blocks 1,3 and 10 - Household Characteristics

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 127986
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

What is your religion?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	Not reported	18	0.0%
1	Hinduism	99968	78.1%
2	Islam	15425	12.1%
3	Christianity	6520	5.1%
4	Sikhism	3093	2.4%
5	Jainism	545	0.4%
6	Buddhism	1011	0.8%
7	Zoroastrianism	62	0.0%
9	Others	1344	1.1%

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 codes. 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.