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

India, 2015 - 2016
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Reference ID
IND_2015_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
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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Ethnicity, India (M_ETHNICITYMN_IA)

Data file: IND2015-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 247
End: 248
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
117. What is your caste or tribe?

CASTE (SPECIFY)_________991
TRIBE (SPECIFY)_________992
NO CASTE/TRIBE 993 (GO TO 119)
DON'T KNOW 998
Categories
Value Category
10 Scheduled caste
20 Scheduled tribe
30 Other
31 Other caste/tribe
32 No caste/tribe
97 Don't know
98 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
ETHNICITYMN_IA (MV131IA) is a variable specific to India that reports the man's ethnicity in broad categories for caste or tribe.

concept

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