census_2011_sc_st: Census 2011 Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (A-10/A-11)
In censusindia: Census of India Data, 1901-2011, with Boundaries and Projections

census_2011_sc_st

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Census 2011 Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (A-10/A-11)

Description

District-level Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe population from the 2011 Census A-10 and A-11 tables.

Usage

census_2011_sc_st

Format

A tibble with 14,028 rows and 9 columns:

year: Census year (2011)
state_name_harmonized: Harmonized state name for joining across datasets
district_name: Name of the district
category: "Scheduled Caste" or "Scheduled Tribe", spelled out
category_code: "SC" or "ST", for filtering by the short form
caste_tribe_name: Name of the caste or tribe
population: Population of the caste or tribe
percentage: Share of district population
district_total_population: Total district population

Details

The two categories are not symmetric. Scheduled Tribes are enumerated by name, 581 of them. Scheduled Castes are not: all 582 SC rows carry the single label "All Scheduled Castes", one per district. Nothing in this package resolves caste below that aggregate.

Filter with either spelling: category holds the long form, category_code holds SC/ST. census_sc_st() accepts both.

ST rows include "Generic Tribes etc.", the residual for members who returned no specific tribe: 585 rows, 2,804,148 people. census_2011_tribes is this table's ST rows with that residual removed and the names harmonised.