India - Household Consumer Expenditure: NSS 61st Round, Schedule 1, July 2004 - June 2005

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-61Rnd-Sch1-July2004-June2005

Year

2004 - 2005

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

Sponsor(s)

M/o Statistics & Programme Implementation, GOI - MOSPI -

Collection(s)

National Sample Survey

Metadata

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Aug 21, 2015

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Regular salary income? (B3_q19)
File: Block 3 Part 2_Household Characteristics

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 124594
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Is any member of the household a regular salary earner?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Yes	32992	26.5%
2	No	91602	73.5%

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

The distinction between a casual wage labourer and a regular salary earner lies in whether a daily or periodic renewal of work contract takes place in the normal course of employment or not. A daily or periodic renewal of the work contract is a normal feature of a casual wage labourer's employment, but not of a regular salary earner. Sometimes financial constraints of the employer may prevent a salary earner from receiving his/her salary regularly; but this will not change his/her status as a regular salary earner. Again, a regular salary earner may receive wages monthly or weekly; what is important is that his/her work contract does not require a daily, weekly, monthly or annual renewal. Whether a person is receiving time wage or piece wage is also not relevant in deciding whether the person is a regular salary earner. Paid apprentices may also be regular salary earners.