India - Household Consumer Expenditure, Jan - June 1998, NSS 54th Round

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-54Rnd-Sch1.0-1998

Year

1998

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_q4)
File: Blocks 1,3_Household Characteristics

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 26847
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	3188	11.9%
2	Scheduled Caste	5181	19.3%
9	Others	18478	68.8%

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 or scheduled caste will be indicated against this item in terms of the specified codes.