census_2011_tribes: Census 2011 Scheduled Tribes (A-11)
In censusindia: Census of India Data, 1901-2011, with Boundaries and Projections

census_2011_tribes

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Census 2011 Scheduled Tribes (A-11)

Description

District-level population of individual Scheduled Tribes from the 2011 Census A-11 tables. tribe_name is harmonised; tribe_name_original keeps the source string verbatim, including the full synonym list the census publishes ("Gond, Arakh, Arrakh, Agaria, ...") and any parenthetical district qualifier.

Usage

census_2011_tribes

Format

A tibble with 12,861 rows and 8 columns:

year: Census year (2011)
state_name_harmonized: Harmonized state name for joining across datasets
district_name: Name of the district
tribe_name: Harmonized tribe name
tribe_name_original: Original tribe name as recorded in the source
population: Tribe population
percentage: Share of district population
district_total_population: Total district population

Details

Harmonisation takes the first synonym and drops the qualifier, so "Thoti (in Adilabad, Hyderabad, ...)" becomes "Thoti". That collapses 581 source strings to 483 tribe names, and it is deliberate: the same tribe is written differently across states, sometimes differing only in whitespace.

These are the ST rows of census_2011_sc_st with "Generic Tribes etc." removed, which is why the population here sums to 103,409,280 rather than the 106,213,428 in that table. Neither figure equals the 104,545,716 in census_2011_pca$st_population; the A-11 tables and the Primary Census Abstract do not reconcile, so pick one source per analysis and say which.