| Caste correlation table [message #4061] |
Wed, 25 March 2015 01:54  |
krishnab75
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Registered: October 2013
Location: Los Angeles
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Hello.
So I am comparing the caste information between the IA2, IA3, and IA5 India DHS surveys. So I was trying to correlate the caste data from the IA2,IA3 surveys with the caste data in IA5. I understand that the caste data in IA5 is in the S117 and S118 variables and that there is a separate castedata.zip file. However, the castedata file in IA5 identifies the specific caste names like "Boya" or "Lambadi," while the caste variables v131 in IA2,IA3 just indicate "schedule caste" and "other backward caste," etc. So I was wondering if there is a table that correlates the caste names like Boya to the appropriate designation of schedule caste or backward caste, etc.
Thanks
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| Re: Caste correlation table [message #4084 is a reply to message #4061] |
Fri, 27 March 2015 09:19  |
Bridgette-DHS
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Following is a response from Senior DHS Specialist, Fred Arnold:
"In the 1992-93 survey (NFHS-1), there are three questions related to caste/tribe of the head of the household in the household questionnaire, with the same questions about the head of the household repeated in the woman's questionnaire. The first question asks whether the head of the household belongs to a scheduled tribe (ST). If yes, the second question asks for the name of the tribe. If the head of the household does not belong to a scheduled tribe, the third question asks for the caste name of the head of the household. There are no questions about scheduled castes (ST) or other backward classes (OBC).
The 1998-99 survey (NFHS-2) and the 2005-06 survey (NFHS-3) include the same two questions on caste/tribe in the household questionnaire. The first question asks for the name of the caste or tribe of the head of the household, and the second questions asks whether the caste or tribe is an SC, ST, OBC, or none of these. NFHS-2 does not have any caste/tribe questions in the woman's questionnaire. In addition, NFHS-3 asks the same two questions that are in the household questionnaire in the woman's questionnaire and the man's questionnaire for the respondent for those questionnaires, not for the household head.
In NFHS-2 and NFHS-3, the respondent self-reported their caste/tribe status as SC, ST, OBC, or none of these, and no attempt was made to verify which category the caste/tribe they mentioned was actually in. It is not possible to match up the caste names in NFHS-1 to the SC, OBC, or none of these categories since the schedules of castes and tribes are state-level designations not national designations. In other words, a particular caste than is an SC in one state may not be an SC in another state. There are further complications when a person moves between states that have different caste schedules. Some states even break down their lists of scheduled castes and scheduled tribes by region within the state, so a particular caste/tribe designation may be different in different parts of the same state."
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| Re: Caste correlation table [message #4170 is a reply to message #4084] |
Sat, 11 April 2015 21:45 |
krishnab75
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Registered: October 2013
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Hey Bridgette, this is very helpful. I just had one thing to follow up on. So I was looking through the caste variables like in the India NFHS-1 survey table IAHR23FL. So the caste variable is SH035 which is the answer to the question "Which caste head HH belong?" So the answer seems to be an integer value that probably corresponds to a set of actual caste names. Is there a table that will match the index numbers to the actual caste name--like a string/text value?
I am good on NFHS-2 and NFHS-3 withe the caste names. In the case of NFHS-2 the IAHR42FL table does provide actual caste names in variable SH40CT, so that is good. In the NFHS-3 survey the caste names are provided in the CASTETRIBE table variable CTRESP provided along with IAHR52FL.
So I am just missing caste names for NFHS-1. On the other hand, let me know if the indexes for the caste names are the same in NFHS-1 as they are in NFHS-2, NFHS-3?
Thanks.
Krishna
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| Re: Caste correlation table [message #4200 is a reply to message #4170] |
Wed, 15 April 2015 20:37 |
Liz-DHS
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Registered: February 2013
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Dear User,
I emailed the address you provided on the forum. I had an attachment, but it was too large for the forum. It went fine by email.
Thank you for your post.
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| Re: Caste correlation table [message #5563 is a reply to message #5491] |
Mon, 08 June 2015 06:13 |
Bridgette-DHS
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Registered: February 2013
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Here is a response from Senior DHS Technical Specialis, Fred Arnold:
The caste names were not coded centrally. They were coded by numerous field agencies that conducted the NFHS-1 fieldwork for each of the 25 states. The field agencies were provided with a standard set of codes to use, which we have sent to you. This list includes all caste names for codes 0001 through 2899 that were used by the field agencies. We do not have caste names for the 104 caste codes above 2899. Those 104 codes constitute only 2.9% of all the caste codes. It is likely that the 104 caste codes were created by the field agencies for specific states since some caste names given could not be matched to the master list of codes from 0001-2899 from the 1931 Census. Given that the coding was conducted for 25 states separately more than 20 years ago, it is not possible to reconstruct the caste names for the 104 codes. It is not correct to say that the lack of caste names for 2.9 percent of cases renders the caste variable unusable. You can simply combine the 104 caste codes from 2900-6000 into one caste code of OTHER CASTE and use the variable in any analysis.
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