India - Household Consumer Expenditure, January-December, 1983, NSS 38th Round

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-38Rnd-Sch1.0-1983

Year

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 15, 2018

Last modified

Mar 26, 2019

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Religion (B3_1_q7)
File: Blocks 1,3 and 10- Household Characteristics

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 117604
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

What is your religion?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	Not reported	111	0.1%
1	Hinduism	92589	78.7%
2	Islam	14397	12.2%
3	Christianity	5755	4.9%
4	Sikhism	2413	2.1%
5	Jainism	400	0.3%
6	Buddhism	993	0.8%
7	Zoroastrianism	42	0.0%
9	Others	904	0.8%

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

The religion of the household will be recorded against this item in codes. 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.