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[India] National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) 2015-16 - IPUMS Subset

India, 2015 - 2016
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IND_2015_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Aug 15, 2018
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Caste or tribe, India (C_ETHNICITYIA2)

Data file: IND2015-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 280
End: 280
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
115. What is your caste or tribe?

CASTE (SPECIFY) _________991
TRIBE (SPECIFY) _________992
NO CASTE/TRIBE 993 (GO TO 201)
DON'T KNOW 998
Categories
Value Category
1 Caste
2 Tribe
3 No caste/tribe
7 Don't know
8 Missing
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.

Description

Definition
ETHNICITYIA2 is a variable specific to India that indicates whether the respondent belongs to a caste or a tribe.

The related variable ETHNICITYIA indicates whether the respondent belongs to a scheduled caste, scheduled tribe, or other backward caste.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Ethnicity and religion Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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