India - Employment and Unemployment, July 2011- June 2012, NSS 68th Round

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-68-10-2013

Year

2011 - 2012

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

Feb 20, 2019

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Social group code (Social_Group)
File: Block_3_Household characteristics

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 101722
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Pre question

Social group (code): Whether or not the household belongs to Scheduled Tribes, Scheduled Castes or Other Backward Classes indicated against this item in terms of the specified codes which are:

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

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	NR	0	0.0%
1	Scheduled tribe	13406	13.2%
2	Scheduled caste	15652	15.4%
3	Other backward class	39721	39.0%
9	Others	32943	32.4%

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.