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

MoSPI-NSS
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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Whether stayed away from village/ town (B6_c3)
File: Block-6-members-migration-records
Overview
Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1
Valid cases: 572254
Invalid: 0
Questions and instructions
Categories
ValueCategoryCases
1 Yes 18806 3.3%
2 No 553448 96.7%
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 person, it is to be ascertained whether during last 365 days preceding the date of survey, he/she stayed away from the village/town for 1 month or more but less than 6 months for the purpose of employment or in search of employment. Code 1 is to be assigned if the reply is in the affirmative, otherwise entry will be 2. For filling in this column, the following points may be kept in mind:

(i) for the purpose of determining the period of staying away, only those periods will be considered for which the member stayed away from the household continuously for 15 days or more during the last 365 days.
(ii) a continuous period of staying away for 15 days or more from the village/ town is termed as a spell.
(iii) a period of 30 days will be considered as 1 month.
(iv) the purpose of stay away from village/town should be 'for employment or in search of employment' only.

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