Indian District Database

Formats for all records with census counts:

Column # Data:
1-2 State ID
3-4: District ID
5-7: Record identification (see list)
8-9: Year of data (last two digits)
10: Version number (2 = cross-sectional data; 6 = panel 1961-91 data)
11-19 Count (e.g., literates) persons - total
20-28 Count (e.g., literates) persons - rural (Census definition)
29-37 Count (e.g., literates) males - total
38-46 Count (e.g., literates) males - rural

To conserve storage space, only the four counts above are saved. The remaining five counts can be calculated by subtraction:

ALL MISSING DATA ARE RECORDED AS -1 !!!!!

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Indian District Database
Last updated October 1, 2000
comments to: Reeve Vanneman. reeve@umd.edu