India - Employment and Unemployment: NSS 61st Round, Schedule 10, July 2004 - June 2005

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-61-12-2011

Year

2004 - 2005

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

Sponsor(s)

Govt. of India - -
Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation - -

Collection(s)

National Sample Survey

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Jul 02, 2015

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Usual principal activity-Status (Usual_principal_activity_status)
File: Block_7pt2_level_09

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 2

Valid cases: 244848
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Usual activity status code :
Principal
(as in col. 3, bl. 5.1)

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
11	Worked in h.h. enterprise (self-employed): own account worker	80597	32.9%
12	Employer	3468	1.4%
21	Worked as helper in h.h. enterprise (unpaid family worker)	46961	19.2%
31	Worked as regular salaried/ wage employee	44016	18.0%
41	Worked as casual wage labour : in public works	617	0.3%
51	Worked as casual wage labour : In other types of work	45649	18.6%
81	Did not work but was seeking and/or available for work	1527	0.6%
91	Attended educational institution	2791	1.1%
92	Attended domestic duties only	5930	2.4%
93	Attended domestic duties and was also engaged in free collection of goods (vegetables, roots, firewood, cattle feed, etc.), sewing, tailoring, weaving, etc. for household use	12543	5.1%
94	Rentiers, pensioners , remittance recipients, etc.	394	0.2%
95	Not able to work due to disability	46	0.0%
97	Others (including begging, prostitution, etc.)	309	0.1%

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Interviewer instructions

Columns (3) & (4): Usual Principal activity status and usual subsidiary activity status: The usual principal activity status and usual subsidiary activity status will be copied from column (3) and column (4) of block 5.1/5.2 to columns (3) and (4), respectively in block 7.2, as described below.

(i) For persons having one of the codes 11-51 in column (3) of block 5.1, the entry in column (3) of block 7.2 will be same as that in column (3) of block 5.1. For such persons, a cross (x) mark will be put in column (4) of block 7.2.

(ii) For persons having one of the codes 81-97 in column (3) of block 5.1 and one of the codes 11-51 in column (3) of block 5.2 , the entry in columns (3) and (4) of block 7.2 will be copied from column (3) of blocks 5.1 and 5.2, respectively.