India - Household Consumer Expenditure, July 2000 - June 2001, NSS 56th Round

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-56Rnd-Sch1-July2000-June2001

Year

2000 - 2001

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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Religion (B3_q5)
File: Blocks 1,3,10_Household characteristics and perception of household regarding sufficiency of food

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 81489
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Which religion does the household belong to?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Hinduism	62076	76.2%
2	Islam	12087	14.8%
3	Christianity	4160	5.1%
4	Sikhism	1651	2.0%
5	Jainism	476	0.6%
6	Buddhism	519	0.6%
7	Zoroastrianism	21	0.0%
9	Others	499	0.6%

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.