Household Consumer Expenditure, January-December, 1983
NSS 38th Round

India

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Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-38Rnd-Sch1.0-1983

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

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Household Consumption Expenditure

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Jan 15, 2018

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Religion (B3_1_q7)

Data file: Blocks 1,3 and 10- Household Characteristics

Overview

Valid: 117604

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Start: 64

End: 64

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: character

Questions and instructions

Literal question

What is your religion?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	Not reported	111	0.1%
1	Hinduism	92589	78.7%
2	Islam	14397	12.2%
3	Christianity	5755	4.9%
4	Sikhism	2413	2.1%
5	Jainism	400	0.3%
6	Buddhism	993	0.8%
7	Zoroastrianism	42	0%
9	Others	904	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.

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Household Consumer Expenditure, January-December, 1983 NSS 38th Round