India's Complexity/Diversity: Survey Categories

If you want to do a survey for India, what are the various categories you have to cover – so that your survey captures the whole country?

A. ZONE
1. North+Central
2. South
3. West
4. East
5. North-east

B. LOCATION
1. City
2. Town
3. Village

C. SEX
1. Male
2. Female

D. AGE
1. Young
2. Middle-age
3. Old

E. CLASS
1. Middle class
2. Lower class
3. Poor

F. CASTE
1. Upper-caste
2. OBC
3. SC/ST
4. Other

So total number of survey categories = 5 x 3 x 2 x 3 x 3 x 4 = 1080!!!