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Sun, 01 October 2023 11:14   |
fred.arnold@icf.com
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In the woman's questionnaire for NFHS-5, Question 115 asks "What is your caste or tribe?" The response codes are:
991 CASTE (Specify)
992 TRIBE (Specify)
993 NO CASTE/TRIBE
998 DON'T KNOW
(DON'T KNOW indicates that the respondent does not know her caste/tribe
NO CASTE/TRIBE indicates that the respondent said that she does not belong to any caste or tribe. If the respondent says NO CASTE/TRIBE, she skips the next question (WQ116).
WQ 116 asks "Do you belong to a scheduled caste, a scheduled tribe, other backward class, or none of these?" The response codes are:
1 SCHEDULED CASTE
2 SCHEDULED TRIBE
3 OBC
4 NONE OF THEM
NONE OF THEM means that the respondent says that she does not belong to a schedule caste, scheduled tribe, or OBC.
In the NFHS-5 final report tables, the castes, tribes are scheduled caste, scheduled tribe, other backward class, other, and don't know. "Other" generally means that the respondent belongs to a caste/tribe, but not to a scheduled caste, scheduled tribe, or other backward class. That generally means that she belongs to a general class, which is usually a higher caste, but we cannot be certain about that since the only information we have is the response codes in the woman's questionnaire.
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