India - Employment and Unemployment Survey: NSS 43rd Round, Schedule 10, July 1987 - June 1988

Creation of Activity File (Rural/Urban) with Special Codes 1,2&3

Both rural and urban, consist of 3 types of records with Special Codes 1, 2 or 3, as outlined below:-

i) When Daily Activity Status Code in block-5 is 11 to 82, or
91 to 99 in combination with 01-82, such activity record
has been created with Special Code 1.

ii) When Daily Activity Status Code in block-5 is 91 to 99 and
total Intensity of Activity is 7.0, such activity record has
been created with Special Code 3.

iii) When Daily Activity Status Code in block-5 is 11 to 82, one
consolidated record of all the daily activities the person
was engaged with, has been created with Special Code 2. In
such cases, the information fields can also be either all
spaces or summation of items wherever applicable and the
serial no. of activity was recorded as '1'.

iv) In other words, records with with Special Code 1 and 3
represent the total number daily activities and records with
Special Code 2 and 3 represent the total number of persons.