Household Consumer Expenditure, July 1993 - June 1994
NSS 50th Round

India, 1993 - 1994

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Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-50Rnd-Sch1.0-1993-94

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

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Household Consumption Expenditure

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Social Group Code (B3_1_q5)

Data file: Blocks 1,2,3,10,11,12,13_Household characteristics

Overview

Valid: 115354

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Start: 60

End: 60

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: character

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Which social group do you belong to?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	Invalid	75	0.1%
1	Scheduled Tribe	13449	11.7%
2	Scheduled Caste	18299	15.9%
9	Others	83531	72.4%

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 or scheduled caste will be indicated against this item in terms of the specified codes which are :

scheduled tribe ..................... 1
scheduled caste .................... 2
others .................................. 9

Those who do not come under any one of first two 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 households belongs will be considered as the 'social group' and the group code appropriate for the household will be assigned. It may be noted that household belonging to neo-Buddhist category will also be considered as scheduled caste.

Question post text

Do you come under scheduled caste or scheduled tribe or others category?

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Household Consumer Expenditure, July 1993 - June 1994 NSS 50th Round