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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Social Group (B3_q6)
File: Block 3_Household Characteristics

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 63720
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Which social group do you belong to?
Do you come under scheduled caste or scheduled tribe or others category?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Scheduled Tribe	6074	9.5%
2	Scheduled Caste	9686	15.2%
3	Other Backward Class	22615	35.5%
9	Others	25345	39.8%

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

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 class - 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.