India - Employment and Unemployment : NSS 66th round, Schedule 10, July 2009 - June 2010

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-66-10-2011

Year

2009 - 2010

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

Sponsor(s)

Govt. of India - -
Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation - -

Collection(s)

National Sample Survey

Metadata

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(Usual_Subsidiary_Activity_Status)
File: Block_7_1_Follow-up questions on availability for work to persons working in the usual principal or subsidiary status

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 2

Valid cases: 173334
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Pre question

Follow-up questions on availability for work to persons working in the usual principal or subsidiary status (i.e., those with codes 11-51 in col. 3 of bl. 5.1 or bl. 5.2)

Literal question

usual activity status code :: Subsidiary

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
00	NR	138645	80.0%
11	Worked in h.h. enterprise (self-employed): own account worker	11367	6.6%
12	Employer	581	0.3%
21	Worked as helper in h.h. enterprise (unpaid family worker)	11350	6.5%
31	Worked as regular salaried/ wage employee	508	0.3%
41	Worked as casual wage labour : in public works	4094	2.4%
51	Worked as casual wage labour : In other types of work	6789	3.9%

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

Usual Principal activity status and usual subsidiary activity status: The usual principal activity status and usual subsidiary activity status will be copied from column (3) of block 5.1 and 5.2 to columns (3) and (4), respectively, as described below.

(i) For persons having one of the codes 11-51 in column (3) of block 5.1, the entry in column (3) of block 7.1 will be same as that in column (3) of block 5.1. For these persons, the subsidiary status will also be recorded in column (4) and will be copied from column (3) of block 5.2. For persons with one of the codes 11-51 in column (3) of block 5.1 and not having any subsidiary economic activity, put a 'x' mark in col. (4).

(ii) For persons engaged in economic activity in subsidiary capacity only, their subsidiary status will be copied from column (3) of block 5.2 and recorded in column (4), and principal status will be copied from column (3) of block 5.1 and recorded in column (3).