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

MoSPI-NSS
Reference ID DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-59Rnd-Sch1.0-2003
Year 0
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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Social Group (B3_q6)
File: Blocks 3,10_Household Characteristics
Overview
Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1
Valid cases: 41005
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
ValueCategoryCases
1 4565 11.1%
2 5642 13.8%
3 14805 36.1%
9 15993 39.0%
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, scheduled caste or other backward class will be indicated against this item in terms of the specified codes which are:

scheduled tribe - 1, scheduled caste - 2, other backward classes - 3, others - 9.

Those who do not come under any one of the first three social groups will be assigned code 9 meant to cover all other categories. In case different members belong to different social groups, the group to which the head of the household belongs will be considered as the 'social group' of the household.

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