[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

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Sep 19, 2018

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Ethnicity, India (W_ETHNICITYIA)

Data file: IND2015-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 274

End: 275

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

116. Do you belong to a scheduled caste, a scheduled tribe, other backward class, or none of these?

SCHEDULED CASTE 1
SCHEDULED TRIBE 2
OBC 3
NONE OF THEM 4

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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