Hi Peter, This is awesome, thank you!! Also thank you for the notes on using R for SAS, I had previously gone the very painful route of doing it through Stata for US survey files.
On Sunday, November 15, 2020 at 4:05:01 AM UTC-6 pmay...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi Eduardo, > > Reeve Vanneman at the University of Maryland maintains the India District > database. "The Indian district database combines district-level data from > census and agricultural sources between 1961 and 1991". > http://vanneman.umd.edu/districts/index.html > As far as I am aware, the last Census to ascertain caste before the most > recent one was that of 1931. For an example of mapping some of that data > see Joseph E. Schwartzberg The Distribution of Selected Castes in the > North Indian Plain > <https://librarysearch.adelaide.edu.au/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=cdi_proquest_journals_1290293821&context=PC&vid=61ADELAIDE_INST:UOFA&lang=en&search_scope=all&adaptor=Primo%20Central&tab=Everything&query=any,contains,schwartzberg%20caste&offset=0> > *Geographical review*, 1965-10-01, Vol.55 (4), p.477-495. > > best wishes, > > Peter > > On Saturday, November 14, 2020 at 8:09:00 AM UTC+10:30 > eduardoca...@u.northwestern.edu wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I am aware that the last three censuses are availiable online even at the >> village/town level for most questions but what about for the previous >> censuses? Are you aware of census data being digitized at least at the >> district level? Most important to me is get the distribution by religion >> and whatever categorization of caste is available (whether it be SC/ST/OBC >> or specific jatis for the earlier censuses). >> >> Alternatively, do you know of a repository with the census data perhaps >> for the earlier ones. I have found some here and there with varying degrees >> of completeness and I was wondering if any of you have come across a more >> comprehensive collection. >> >> Thank you very much in advance! >> >> Best, >> >> Eduardo >> > -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/datameet/b418886d-f4ff-4cba-a090-58118e059a60n%40googlegroups.com.
