India - Household Consumer Expenditure, Jan - June 2004, NSS 60th Round

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-60Rnd-Sch1-Jan-June2004

Year

2004

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office - M/o Statistics and Programme Implementation(MOSPI),Government of India (GOI)

Sponsor(s)

M/o Statistics & Programme Implementation, GOI - MOSPI -

Collection(s)

Household Consumer Expenditure

Created on

Jan 18, 2018

Last modified

Mar 27, 2019

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Social Group (B3_q6)
File: Block 3_Household Characteristics

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 29619
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Which social group does the household belong to?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Scheduled Tribe	3504	11.8%
2	Scheduled Caste	4417	14.9%
3	Other Backward Class	10849	36.6%
9	Others	10849	36.6%

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 class - 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.