[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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Sep 19, 2018

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Ethnicity, India (M_ETHNICITYMN_IA)

Data file: IND2015-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 247

End: 248

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

117. What is your caste or tribe?

CASTE (SPECIFY)_________991
TRIBE (SPECIFY)_________992
NO CASTE/TRIBE 993 (GO TO 119)
DON'T KNOW 998

Categories

Value	Category
10	Scheduled caste
20	Scheduled tribe
30	Other
31	Other caste/tribe
32	No caste/tribe
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

ETHNICITYMN_IA (MV131IA) is a variable specific to India that reports the man's ethnicity in broad categories for caste or tribe.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Ethnicity and religion Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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