India - Employment and Unemployment, July 2004 - June 2005, NSS 61st Round

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-61-12-2011

Year

2004 - 2005

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office - NSSO

Sponsor(s)

Govt. of India - -
Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation - -

Collection(s)

Employment and Unemployment

Created on

Jan 18, 2018

Last modified

Mar 25, 2019

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Social group (SOCIAL_GRP)
File: Block_1_2_and_3_level_01

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 124594
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

land owned as on the date of survey
(0.000 hectares)

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	NR	0	0.0%
1	Scheduled tribe	16203	13.0%
2	Scheduled caste	20284	16.3%
3	Other backward class	46348	37.2%
9	Others	41759	33.5%

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

scheduled tribe ………... 1
scheduled caste ………. 2
other backward classes … 3
others …………………. 9

Those who do not come under any one of the first three social 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 household belongs will be considered as the 'social group' of the household.