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Household Consumer Expenditure, July 1999 - June 2000
NSS 55th Round

India, 1999 - 2000
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Reference ID
DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-55Rnd-Sch1-July1999-June2000
Producer(s)
National Sample Survey Office
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Household Consumption Expenditure
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Religion (B3_q5)

Data file: Blocks 1,3,12_Household Characteristics

Overview

Valid: 120192
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Start: 80
End: 80
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: character

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Which religion does the household belong to?
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Hinduism 93514
77.8%
2 Islam 14607
12.2%
3 Christianity 6517
5.4%
4 Sikhism 2891
2.4%
5 Jainism 489
0.4%
6 Buddhism 1179
1%
7 Zoroastrianism 28
0%
9 others 967
0.8%
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.
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