India - Household Consumer Expenditure, NSS 60th Round, Schedule 1, January - June 2004

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-60Rnd-Sch1-Jan-June2004

Year

2004

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 02, 2016

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Religion (B3_q5)
File: Block 3_Household Characteristics

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 29628
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Which religion does the household belong to?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Hinduism	23541	79.5%
2	Islam	3257	11.0%
3	Christianity	1717	5.8%
4	Sikhism	487	1.6%
5	Jainism	105	0.4%
6	Buddhism	245	0.8%
7	Zoroastrianism	3	0.0%
9	Others	273	0.9%

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 code. 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.