Demographic and Health Survey 1998-99 - IPUMS Subset

India, 1998 - 1999

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Reference ID

IND_1998_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

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International Institute for Population Sciences and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center

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Ethnicity, India (C_ETHNICITYIA)

Data file: IND1998-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 269

End: 270

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

40. What is the caste or tribe of the head of the household?

CASTE (SPECIFY) _______1
TRIBE (SPECIFY) _______2
NO CASTE/TRIBE 3 (GO TO 42)

Categories

Value	Category
10	Scheduled caste
20	Scheduled tribe
30	Other
31	Other backward caste
32	None of them
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

ETHNICITYIA (V131IA) is a variable specific to India that reports the woman's ethnicity in broad categories for caste or tribe. Responses to ETHNICITYIA change over time. See Comparability.

concept

Concept

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

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