India - Employment and Unemployment Survey: NSS 62nd Round, Schedule 10, July 2005 - June 2006

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-62nd-Sch10-2005-06

Year

2005 - 2006

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 03, 2016

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Religion (B3_q5)
File: Block-3-Household-Characteristics-records

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 78877
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Religion(code)

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Hinduism	60523	76.7%
2	Islam	10891	13.8%
3	Christianity	4102	5.2%
4	Sikhism	1610	2.0%
5	Jainism	404	0.5%
6	Buddhism	765	1.0%
7	Zoroastrianism	13	0.0%
9	Others	569	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.