India - Household Consumer Expenditure, July 1993 - June 1994, NSS 50th Round

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-50Rnd-Sch1.0-1993-94

Year

1993 - 1994

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 17, 2018

Last modified

Mar 27, 2019

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Social Group Code (B3_1_q5)
File: Blocks 1,2,3,10,11,12,13_Household characteristics

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 115354
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Which social group do you belong to?

Post question

Do you come under scheduled caste or scheduled tribe or others category?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	Invalid	75	0.1%
1	Scheduled Tribe	13449	11.7%
2	Scheduled Caste	18299	15.9%
9	Others	83531	72.4%

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 or scheduled caste will be indicated against this item in terms of the specified codes which are :

scheduled tribe ..................... 1
scheduled caste .................... 2
others .................................. 9

Those who do not come under any one of first two 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 households belongs will be considered as the 'social group' and the group code appropriate for the household will be assigned. It may be noted that household belonging to neo-Buddhist category will also be considered as scheduled caste.