The 2001 census of India recorded 24,080,016 Christians in the country, representing 2.34 per cent of the population. Pew Research Center analysed the same census figures and made adjustments to account for inaccuracies and cover-ups in self-reported religion. For example, many Indian Christians who belong to Scheduled Castes and Tribes identify as Hindu in censuses and other surveys, in order to obtain caste-based government benefits such as reservations. For this reason, estimates of Indian Christian population as well as the denominational shares in it, vary considerably. After consulting leading Indian demographers, Pew researchers adjusted the Christian share of India's population from 2.3% to 2.6%, or a total of 31,850,000 Christians. The 2011 Indian census also reported a similar Christian share at 2.3% of Indian population with 27,819,588 Christians. Some other sources provide much higher estimates of over 60 million for Indian Christians or about 6% of the Indian population.