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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Reason for working (code) (B8_q9)
File: Block-8-Children-Records

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 1551
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Pre question

Check whetherattending school and also working. If yes,ask.

Literal question

Reason for working (code)

Post question

Not attending school? skip to Question 13

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Supplement Hh Income	530	34.2%
2	Shortage Of Labour In Hh Enterprise	419	27.0%
3	To Acquire Skill	80	5.2%
4	To Meet Personal Expenses	23	1.5%
5	To Spend Vacation Time	247	15.9%
6	Forced To Repay Loan	2	0.1%
9	Others	250	16.1%

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 reason which forces the child to work will be recorded in codes. Code 6 is intended for cases where the child is forced to work as part of repayment of hereditary loan or a loan contracted by other members of the household. The child in this case may not be getting any pay or may begetting a nominal pay only. In case more than one reasons are found applicable to a child, the one which appears first in the code list will be given. For a member who is an employee or a domestic servant, the reference of the hh. in the reason code will mean his/her parent hh. In case he/she do not have any parent hh., then one of the codes 3 & 4 will be applicable to him/her.