India - Housing Condition Survey, July - December 2002, NSS 58th Round

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-58Rnd-Sch1dot2-2002

Year

2002

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_q5)
File: Block3-records

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 97882
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Social group (code)

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	NR	107	0.1%
1	Scheduled tribe	10963	11.2%
2	Scheduled caste	18048	18.4%
3	Other backward class	33803	34.5%
9	Others	34961	35.7%

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 (ST), scheduled caste (SC) or other backward class (OBC) will be indicated against this item in terms of the specified codes. Those who do not come under any one of the first three social groups will be assigned code 9. 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.