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Demographic and Health Survey 1998-99 - IPUMS Subset

India, 1998 - 1999
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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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Caste or tribe, India (W_ETHNICITYIA2)

Data file: IND1998-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 267
End: 267
Width: 1
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
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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