India - Employment, Unemployment and Migration Survey: NSS 64th Round, Schedule 10, July 2007 - June 2008

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-64th-Sch10dot2-2007-2008

Year

2007 - 2008

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

Sponsor(s)

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

Collection(s)

National Sample Survey

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Mar 16, 2016

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Reason for migration (B3_q11)
File: Block-3-household-characteristics-ecords

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 2

Valid cases: 4345
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
01	In search of employment	821	18.9%
02	In search of better employment	884	20.3%
03	Business	238	5.5%
04	To take up employment/better employment	890	20.5%
05	Transfer of service/ contract	614	14.1%
06	Proximity to place of work	84	1.9%
07	Studies	374	8.6%
08	Natural disaster (drought, flood, tsunami, etc.)	23	0.5%
10	Social/political problems (riots, terrorism, political refugee, bad law and order, etc.)	24	0.6%
11	Displacement by development project	14	0.3%
12	Acquisition of own house/flat	78	1.8%
13	Housing problems	75	1.7%
14	Health care	20	0.5%
15	Post retirement	19	0.4%
16	Marriage	69	1.6%
17	Migration of parent/earning member of the family	0	0.0%
19	Others;	118	2.7%

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

For each household, which has migrated, the reason for such migration will be ascertained and recorded in codes. While ascertaining the reason, it may be noted that though different members of the household may have different reasons for migration, only that factor which is the basic reason for migration of the household is to be ascertained and recorded. This reasons for migration of the household is to be recorded in terms of the codes: