India - Employment and Unemployment Survey: NSS 38th Round, Schedule 10, 1983

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DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-38Rnd-Sch10-1983

Year

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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Principal usual Activity status (UAS)Code (B8_q2a)
File: Block-8-Persons-Addl-Questions-UsualActivity-records

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 2

Valid cases: 471840
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Principal usual Activity status (UAS)Code (copy from block 6-Q.2)

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
01	Attached to land lord.	445	0.1%
02	Attached to money lender.	12	0.0%
03	Attached to land lord-cum-money lender.	18	0.0%
04	Attached to others.	180	0.0%
11	Worked (self-employed) in household enterprise.	85560	18.1%
21	worked as helper in household enterprise.	38151	8.1%
31	worked as regular salaried/wage employee.	40929	8.7%
41	worked as casual wage labour in public works.	1346	0.3%
51	worked as casual wage labour in other types of work	58197	12.3%
81	Sought work.	7500	1.6%
91	Attended education institution.	116267	24.6%
92	Attended domestic duties only.	74983	15.9%
93	Attended domestic duties and was also Engaged in free collection of good, sewing, tailoring, weaving etc. for household use	45821	9.7%
96	Rentiers, pensioners, remittance recipients etC.	2431	0.5%

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

For each of the members whose serial number is recorded against item 1, his or her usual activity 'status' and 'industry division' codes (as recorded in columns (2) and (3) respectively of block 6) will be entered against item 2 with a hyphen (-) in between the two codes.