India - Survey of disabled persons, July 2002 - Dec 2002, NSS 58th Round

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-58Rnd-Sch26-July2002-Dec2002

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)

Other Surveys

Created on

Jan 17, 2018

Last modified

Mar 27, 2019

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Social group (B3_q2)
File: Blocks 1,3_Household characteristics

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 70281
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Which social group do you belong to?
Do you come under scheduled caste or scheduled tribe or other backward class or others category?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	scheduled tribe	6035	8.6%
2	scheduled caste	14492	20.6%
3	other backward class	26876	38.2%
9	others	22878	32.6%

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

Whether or not the household belongs to scheduled tribe (ST), scheduled caste (SC) or other backward class (OBC) will be indicated against this item. The codes for social-group 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. 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.