India - Household Consumer Expenditure, NSS 63rd Round : July 2006 - June 2007, NSS 63rd Round

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-63Rnd-Sch1.0-2006-07

Year

2006 - 2007

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office - M/o Statistics and Programme Implementation(MOSPI),Government of India (GOI)

Sponsor(s)

M/o Statistics & Programme Implementation, GOI - MOSPI -

Collection(s)

Household Consumer Expenditure

Created on

Jan 18, 2018

Last modified

Mar 27, 2019

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Religion (B3_q5)
File: Block 3_Household Characteristics

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 63726
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

What is your religion?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Hinduism	50155	78.7%
2	Islam	7790	12.2%
3	Christianity	3513	5.5%
4	Sikhism	1150	1.8%
5	Jainism	321	0.5%
6	Buddhism	438	0.7%
7	Zoroastrianism	21	0.0%
9	Others	338	0.5%

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

The religion of the household will be recorded against this item in code. 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. The codes are:
Hinduism .......... 1 Jainism ................. 5
Islam ................. 2 Buddhism ............. 6
Christianity ........ 3 Zoroastrianism ...... 7
Sikhism .............. 4 others .................... 9