India - Household Consumer Expenditure, July 2002 - Dec 2002, NSS 58th Round

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-58Rnd-Sch1.0-2002

Year

2002

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 1,3,10_Household Characteristics

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 32668
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	3661	11.2%
2	scheduled caste	5714	17.5%
3	other backward class	11156	34.1%
9	others	12137	37.2%

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 or other backward class will be indicated against this item in terms of the specified codes.