India - Household Consumer Expenditure, NSS 59th Round, Schedule 1, Jan 2003 - December 2003

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-59Rnd-Sch1.0-2003

Year

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

Sponsor(s)

M/o Statistics & Programme Implementation, GOI - MOSPI -

Collection(s)

National Sample Survey

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Aug 01, 2016

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Religion (B3_q5)
File: Blocks 3,10_Household Characteristics

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 41009
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

What is your religion?

Categories

Value	Cases
1	32256	78.7%
2	4593	11.2%
3	2395	5.8%
4	892	2.2%
5	188	0.5%
6	376	0.9%
7	5	0.0%
9	304	0.7%

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

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. The codes are:

Hinduism .......... 1 Jainism ................. 5
Islam ................. 2 Buddhism ............. 6
Christianity ........ 3 Zoroastrianism ...... 7
Sikhism .............. 4 others .................... 9