Level of presentation: India / State / District
New Table in 2001 Census
This appendix table provides the distribution of
Scheduled Tribe households by type of census houses occupied by
them. A household has been treated as a Scheduled Tribe
household if its head belongs to a Scheduled Tribe. The
structures of census houses occupied by the Scheduled Tribe
households for fully and partly residential purposes have been
classified into permanent, semi-permanent and temporary
depending on the types of material used in the construction of
wall and roof. Temporary structures are further classified into
serviceable and non-serviceable. The criteria adopted for their
classification is given as under:
Permanent
Houses
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Houses,
the walls and roof of which are made of permanent
materials. The material of walls can be any one from the
following, namely, galvanized iron sheets or other metal
sheets, asbestos sheets, burnt bricks, stones or concrete.
Roof may be made of from any one of the following
materials, namely, tiles, slate, galvanized iron sheets,
metal sheets, asbestos sheets, bricks, stones or concrete.
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Temporary
Houses
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Houses
in which both walls and roof are made of materials, which
have to be replaced frequently. Walls may be made from any
one of the following temporary materials, namely, grass,
thatch, bamboo, plastic, polythene, mud, unburnt bricks or
wood. Roof may be made from any one of the following
temporary materials, namely, grass, thatch, bamboo, wood,
mud, plastic or polythene.
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Semi-permanent
houses
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Houses
in which either the wall or the roof is made of permanent
material and the other is made of temporary material.
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Serviceable temporary
houses
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Temporary
houses in which wall is made of mud, unburnt bricks or
wood.
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Non-serviceable temporary
houses
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Temporary
houses in which wall is made of grass, thatch, bamboo,
etc., plastic or polythene.
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This
table excludes the institutional households for which the
information on Scheduled Caste/Tribe status of the head of the
household was not collected.
The data in this appendix table are presented for total,
rural and urban areas separately.
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