India - Household Consumer Expenditure, NSS 57th Round : July 2001 - June 2002, NSS 57th Round

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-57Rnd-Sch1.0-2001

Year

2001 - 2002

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 17, 2018

Last modified

Mar 27, 2019

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Religion (B3_q5)
File: Blocks 1,3,10_Household Characteristics

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 91700
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

What is the religion of the members of the household?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Hinduism	71526	78.0%
2	Islam	11605	12.7%
3	Christianity	5072	5.5%
4	Sikhism	1572	1.7%
5	Jainism	712	0.8%
6	Buddhism	636	0.7%
7	Zoroastrianism	37	0.0%
9	Others	540	0.6%

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

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.