India - Land, Livestock Holdings Survey: NSS 59th Round, Schedule 18.1_v1, January - December 2003 - Visit 1

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-59th-Sch18dot1-visit1-2003

Year

2003

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

Sponsor(s)

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

Collection(s)

National Sample Survey

Metadata

Documentation in PDF

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Aug 01, 2016

Last modified

Sep 02, 2016

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Religion code (B3_q5)
File: Block-3-household characteristics-records-visit-1

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 82153
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Hinduism	64427	78.4%
2	Islam	9714	11.8%
3	Christianity	4621	5.6%
4	Sikhism	1639	2.0%
5	Jainism	267	0.3%
6	Buddhism	852	1.0%
7	Zoroastrianism	6	0.0%
9	others	627	0.8%

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.