India - Household Consumer Expenditure, July 1999 - June 2000, NSS 55th Round

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-55Rnd-Sch1-July1999-June2000

Year

1999 - 2000

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 (B3_q6)
File: Blocks 1,3,12_Household Characteristics

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 120309
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Which social group does the household belong to?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	Invalid	220	0.2%
1	Scheduled Tribe	13326	11.1%
2	Scheduled Caste	18740	15.6%
3	Other backward castes	38389	31.9%
9	Others	49634	41.3%

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.