Interviews for this nationally representative survey were conducted face-to-face under the direction of RTI International from Nov. The survey also included several questions on gender roles in Indian society, but these questions were not analyzed in the previous report and are now being published for the first time.
Many findings from the survey in India were previously published in “ Religion in India: Tolerance and Segregation,” which looked in detail at religious and national identity, religious beliefs and practices, and attitudes among religious communities. For this report, we surveyed 29,999 Indian adults (including 22,975 Hindus, 3,336 Muslims, 1,782 Sikhs, 1,011 Christians, 719 Buddhists, 109 Jains and 67 respondents who belong to another religion or are religiously unaffiliated).
This study is part of Pew Research Center’s most comprehensive, in-depth exploration of India to date.