Level of presentation: India / State / District
Corresponding
Table of 1991 Census: Table H-6 ST
This table presents the distribution of Scheduled
Tribe households by availability of separate kitchen within the
house and the type of fuel used for cooking. Scheduled Tribe
households refer to those households where the head belongs to a
Scheduled Tribe. The classification of households relating to
availability of kitchen is shown in four categories viz.,
separately available, separately not available, cooking in open
and no cooking. If the available kitchen was independent of any
other use within the house, it was treated as ‘available’
and if it was not available as an exclusive room then it was
considered as ‘not available’. If cooking was done in an
unenclosed space within the house or its precincts, the space
used for cooking was not treated as a kitchen and in this case
‘cooking in open’ was recorded. In case due to exigencies of
work or any other reason the household was not cooking in the
census house, ‘no cooking’ response was recorded. The types
of fuel used for cooking presented in this table are firewood;
crop residue; cowdung cake; coal, lignite, charcoal; kerosene;
LPG; electricity; biogas and any other fuel. Firewood includes
woods of different types such as timber, branches and trunk of
trees and shrubs, etc. As for crop residue, typical examples of
this fuel are crop produce such as cotton or pulse stems, paddy
or wheat straw, etc. The number of households with no cooking
has been separately shown. For reckoning the type of fuel, the
fuel most commonly used by the household has been considered.
The data in this table are presented for total, rural and urban
areas separately.
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