Household Consumer Expenditure, Jan 2003 - Dec 2003
NSS 59th Round

India

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Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-59Rnd-Sch1.0-2003

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

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Household Consumption Expenditure

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Jan 17, 2018

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Religion (B3_q5)

Data file: Blocks 3,10_Household Characteristics

Overview

Valid: 41009

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Start: 61

End: 61

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: character

Questions and instructions

Literal question

What is your religion?

Categories

Value	Cases
1	32256	78.7%
2	4593	11.2%
3	2395	5.8%
4	892	2.2%
5	188	0.5%
6	376	0.9%
7	5	0%
9	304	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. The codes are:

Hinduism .......... 1 Jainism ................. 5
Islam ................. 2 Buddhism ............. 6
Christianity ........ 3 Zoroastrianism ...... 7
Sikhism .............. 4 others .................... 9

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Household Consumer Expenditure, Jan 2003 - Dec 2003 NSS 59th Round