On Levels of Living of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Vijay Nayak Shailaja Prasad There are not many studies of the consumption levels of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes at the macro-level. This may he because the National Sample Survey Organisation, which is the only official agency that collects such data for the whole country, does not generally publish data on consumer expenditures separately for SC/ST.
