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Table H-4 SC (Appendix)

DISTRIBUTION OF SCHEDULED CASTE HOUSEHOLDS BY TYPE OF CENSUS HOUSES OCCUPIED


Level of presentation: India / State / District
New Table in 2001 Census

This appendix table provides the distribution of Scheduled Caste households by type of census houses occupied by them. A household has been treated as a Scheduled Caste household when its head belongs to a Scheduled Caste. The structures of census houses occupied by the Scheduled Caste 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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

Serviceable temporary houses

 

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Temporary houses in which wall is made of mud, unburnt bricks or wood.

 

Non-serviceable temporary houses

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Temporary houses in which wall is made of grass, thatch, bamboo, etc., plastic or polythene. 

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.