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Employment and Unemployment Survey: NSS 43rd Round : July 1987 - June 1988
Fourth Quinquennial Survey

India, 1987 - 1988
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Reference ID
DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-43Rnd-Sch10-1987-88
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National Sample Survey Office
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Employment and Unemployment
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Hhold relligion code (B3_q4_Relgn)

Data file: Block-1-3-Household-Records

Overview

Valid: 128963
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Start: 47
End: 47
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: character

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Household Religion (code)
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Hinduism 100741
78.1%
2 Islam 15527
12%
3 Christianity 6576
5.1%
4 Sikhism 3107
2.4%
5 Jainism 550
0.4%
6 Buddhism 1020
0.8%
7 Zoroastrianism 64
0%
8 others 28
0%
9 Invalid 1350
1%
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 in terms of the specified code will be recorded against this item. If different members of the household claim to belong to different religions, though such an eventuality is likely to be rare, the religion of the head of the household will be considered as the religion of the household.
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