India - Household Consumer Expenditure, NSS 62nd Round, Schedule 1, July 2005 - June 2006

The household type code based on the means of livelihood of a household will be decided on the basis of the sources of the household's income during the 365 days preceding the date of survey. For this purpose, only the household's income (net income and not gross income) from economic activities will be considered; but the incomes of servants and paying guests will not be taken into account.
For the rural areas, the selected household will be assigned the appropriate type code out of the following five different household type codes:
self-employed in non-agriculture…… 1 self-employed in agriculture ....…...... 4
agricultural labour ........................…....2 others .................................................. 9
other labour …………………………. 3

For urban areas, the household type codes are as follows:
self-employed - 1, regular wage/salary earning - 2, casual labour - 3, others - 9.

For a rural household, if a single source (among the five sources of income listed in the preceding paragraph) contributes 50% or more of the household's income from economic activities during the last 365 days, it will be assigned the type code (1, 2, 3, 4 or 9) corresponding to that source.

For urban areas the different urban type codes correspond to four sources of household income, unlike the rural sector where five sources are considered. An urban household will be assigned the type code 1, 2, 3 or 9 corresponding to the major source of its income from economic activities during the last 365 days. A household, which does not have any income from economic activities, will get type code 9 (others).