India - Housing Condition and Migration Survey, January - June 1993, NSS 49th Round

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-49Rnd-Sch1dot2-1993

Year

1993

Country

India

Producer(s)

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

Sponsor(s)

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

Collection(s)

Other Surveys

Created on

Jan 17, 2018

Last modified

Mar 27, 2019

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Social Group (Code) (B3_q4)
File: Block-3-Part-1-household characteristics records

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 119421
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Social Group (Code)

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	NR	65	0.1%
1	Scheduled tribe	14639	12.3%
2	Scheduled caste	21932	18.4%
8	Invalid	32	0.0%
9	Others	82753	69.3%

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

Social group refers to one of the following groups viz, scheduled tribe , schedule caste and others, scheduled caste will also include ` Neo-Buddhists`. The group to which the household members belong will be the one to be considered. If different members of the household claim to belong to different social groups, the social group to which the head of the household belongs will be considered as the social group of the household.
Social group will be recorded in codes