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

India
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DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-59Rnd-Sch1.0-2003
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National Sample Survey Office
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Household Consumption Expenditure
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Jan 17, 2018
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Social Group (B3_q6)

Data file: Blocks 3,10_Household Characteristics

Overview

Valid: 41005
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Start: 62
End: 62
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: character

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Which social group do you belong to?
Do you come under scheduled caste or scheduled tribe or others category?
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 4565
11.1%
2 5642
13.8%
3 14805
36.1%
9 15993
39%
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, scheduled caste - 2, other backward classes - 3, 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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