India - Employment and Unemployment Survey: NSS 50th Round, Schedule 10, July 1993 - June 1994

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-50Rnd-Sch10-1993-94

Year

1993 - 1994

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

Sponsor(s)

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

Collection(s)

National Sample Survey

Metadata

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Type of work sought (code) (B6_q9)
File: Block-6-Unemployed-Persons-Rcds

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 7390
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Universe

Applicable to persons unemployed for 7 days of the week.Such persons will be identified on the basis of the daily time disposition recorded in block 5, and column (22) of block 5 will have code 1 for such persons.

Pre question

Ask the Question only to persons unemployed for 7 days of the week preceding the date of survey

Literal question

Particulars of work sought/available--type of work

Post question

If no persons unemployed for 7 days of the week then skip to next block

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	self-employment	786	10.6%
2	regular wage/salary work	5130	69.4%
3	casual labour	1474	19.9%

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

The type of work sought by the person or for which the person is available is to be recorded as per code list. When a person is unable to clearly specify the type of work for which he/she is seeking/available, the preference may be probed by the investigator and record here.