India - Household Consumer Expenditure: NSS 61st Round, Schedule 1, July 2004 - June 2005

MoSPI-NSS
Reference ID DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-61Rnd-Sch1-July2004-June2005
Year 2004 - 2005
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 (B3_q6)
File: Block 3 Part 1_Household Characteristics
Overview
Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1
Valid cases: 124603
Invalid: 0
Questions and instructions
Literal question
Which social group does the household belong to?
Categories
ValueCategoryCases
1 Scheduled Tribe 16410 13.2%
2 Scheduled Caste 20065 16.1%
3 Other Backward Class 46236 37.1%
9 Others 41892 33.6%
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, scheduled caste or other backward class will be indicated against this item in terms of the specified codes which are:

scheduled tribe……….. 1 other backward class…… 3
scheduled caste………. 2 others……………………. 9

Those who do not come under any one of the first three social 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 household belongs will be considered as the 'social group' of the household.

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