India - Housing Condition Survey: NSS 65th Round, Schedule 1.2, July 2008- June 2009

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-65Rnd-Sch1dot2-2008-09

Year

2008 - 2009

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_q8)
File: Block-3-Household characteristics records

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 153499
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Religion

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Hinduism	119550	77.9%
2	Islam	19011	12.4%
3	Christianity	9280	6.0%
4	Sikhism	2396	1.6%
5	Jainism	333	0.2%
6	Buddhism	1732	1.1%
7	Zoroastrianism	20	0.0%
9	others	1177	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.