India - Employment and Unemployment Survey, July 2005 - June 2006, NSS 62nd Round

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-62nd-Sch10-2005-06

Year

2005 - 2006

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)

Employment and Unemployment

Created on

Jan 18, 2018

Last modified

Mar 25, 2019

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Social Group (B3_q6)
File: Block-3-Household-Characteristics-records

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 78867
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Social Group(code)

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Scheduled tribe	7792	9.9%
2	Scheduled caste	12279	15.6%
3	Other backward classes	28141	35.7%
9	Others	30655	38.9%

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 the household belongs to scheduled tribe, scheduled caste or other backward class will be indicated against this item in terms of the 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.