India - Household Consumer Expenditure: NSS 50th Round, Schedule 1, July 1993 - June 1994

MoSPI-NSS
Reference ID DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-50Rnd-Sch1.0-1993-94
Year 1993 - 1994
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 Code (B3_1_q5)
File: Blocks 1,2,3,10,11,12,13_Household characteristics
Overview
Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1
Valid cases: 115354
Invalid: 0
Questions and instructions
Literal question
Which social group do you belong to?
Post question
Do you come under scheduled caste or scheduled tribe or others category?
Categories
ValueCategoryCases
0 Invalid 75 0.1%
1 Scheduled Tribe 13449 11.7%
2 Scheduled Caste 18299 15.9%
9 Others 83531 72.4%
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 or scheduled caste will be indicated against this item in terms of the specified codes which are :

scheduled tribe ..................... 1
scheduled caste .................... 2
others .................................. 9

Those who do not come under any one of first two 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 households belongs will be considered as the 's­ocial group' and the group code appropriate for the household will be assigned. It may be noted that household belonging to neo-Buddhist category will also be considered as scheduled caste.

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