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Household Consumer Expenditure, July 2005 - June 2006
NSS 62nd Round

India, 2005 - 2006
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Reference ID
DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-62Rnd-Sch1.0-2005-06
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National Sample Survey Office
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Household Consumption Expenditure
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Jan 18, 2018
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Social Group (B3_q6)

Data file: Block 3_Household Characteristics

Overview

Valid: 39429
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Start: 61
End: 61
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 Scheduled Tribe 3907
9.9%
2 Scheduled Caste 5275
13.4%
3 Other Backward Class 14072
35.7%
9 Others 16175
41%
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 or scheduled caste will be indicated against this item in terms of the specified codes which are :

scheduled tribe ..................... 1
scheduled caste .................... 2
others .................................. 9

Those who do not come under any one of first two 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 households belongs will be considered as the 's­ocial group' and the group code appropriate for the household will be assigned. It may be noted that household belonging to neo-Buddhist category will also be considered as scheduled caste.
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