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) | |
Metadata | Documentation in PDF |
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Overview
The Employment and Unemployment surveys of National sample Survey (NSS) are primary sources of data on various indicators of labour force at National and State levels. These are used for planning, policy formulation, decision support and as input for further statistical exercises by various Government organizations, academicians, researchers and scholars. NSS surveys on employment and un-employment with large sample size of households have been conducted quinquennially from 27th. round(October'1972 - September'1973) onwards. Cotinuing in this series the fifth such all-india survey on the situation of employment and unemployment in India was carried out during the period july 1993 - june 1994 . In this survey, a nation-wide enquiry was conducted to provide estimates on various characteristics pertaining to employment and unemployment in India and some characteristics associated with them at the national and state levels. Information on various facets of employment and unemployment in India was collected through a schedule of enquiry (schedule 10). Apart from the information usually collected in the quinquennial rounds, information on some new items were also collected. With the experience gained from the past four quinquennial surveys behind, keeping in view the need for further refinements in the concepts and procedures and wider coverage in the light of international practices, certain modifications/ changes were made in this survey the 50th round, without affecting its comparability with the past surveys. These are briefly cited below:
(i) In the past surveys, the current weekly status (CWS) of a person was first assigned on the basis of the response to the questions relating to his participation in gainful activities (non-gainful activities) and thereafter the daily time disposition data was collected only for those in the labour force as per the CWS. In this round,the daily time disposition for all the persons surveyed were collected and the CWS was determined based on the time disposition data so collected, without probing any further on this point.
(ii) Certain probing questions were introduced to all persons who were unemployed on all the days of the days of the reference week. These include educational background of unemployed, spell of unemployment, industry-occupation of the last employment, reason for leaving the employment, etc.
(iii) A set of probing questions were framed to get the profile of the children (5-14 years) particularly their economic activities.
(iv) As information on migration were collected extensively in the 49th round, items relating to migration were not collected in this 50th round.
(v) The probing questions meant for the employed persons according to usual status were modified to obtain a better view of the underemployment situation.
(vi) Hitherto, in NSS, work was identified with the performing of 'gainful activity'. As the international standards use the term 'economic activity' rather than 'gainful activity', the concept of economic activity was introduced in the fiftieth round. However, the coverage of activities under the new term was kept the same as in the earlier surveys, except, for the inclusion of 'own account production of fixed assets' as a work related activity.
(vii) In the NSS quinquennial surveys the identification of usual status involved a trichotomous classification of persons into 'employed', 'unemployed' and 'out of labour force' based on the major time criterion. In this round, the procedure prescribed was a two stage dichotomous procedure which involves a classification into 'labour force' and 'out of labour force' in the first stage and the labour force into 'employed' and 'unemployed' in the second stage.
Work Programme: The survey period of one year was divided into four sub-rounds of three months duration each as below.
sub-round period of survey
1 July-September, 1993
2 October- December, 1993
3 January-March, 1994
4 April-June, 1994
Period of Survey for the Four Sub-Rounds Equal number of sample villages and blocks was allotted for survey in each of these sub--rounds. However in Andaman and Nicobar Islands , Lakshadweep, and rural areas of Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland, the re-striction of surveying the allotted households during the sub-round period was not strictly enforced.The survey used the interview method of data collection from a sample of randomly selected households. Sample survey data [ssd]
Randomly selected households based on sampling procedure and members of the household
Scope
The NSSO surveys on employment and unemployment aim to measure the extent of ‘employment’ and ‘unemployment’ in quantitative terms disaggregated by various household and population characteristics . The persons surveyed are classified in to various activity categories on the basis of the activities pursue d by them during certain specified reference periods. Three reference periods are used in thes e surveys. These are (i) one year (ii) one week and (iii) each day of the week. Based on these th ree periods three different measures are arrived at. These are termed as usual status, current we ekly status ,and the current daily status .In the present survey, apart from the collection of data on employment and unemployment efforts were also made to collect data on the activity profiles of children. This is hoped to make available useful information relating to child labour and its causes. Another new dimension added to the present survey was in the probing questions to the unemployed regarding their educational background, past employment, nature of efforts made and sectors in which employment is sought. The probing questions on the employed to understand the extent of under utilisation of labour time was further expanded to acquire more specific information from the employed. There were also some questions on the qualitative aspects of employment like occupational changes, availability of trade unions, nature of employer etc.The data for this survey was collected in the NSS Schedule 10 used for employment surveys. For this round, the schedule had 8 core blocks out of 13 blocks.
Blocks 0, 1 and 2 - were similar to the ones used in usual NSS rounds. These were used to record identification of sample households and particulars of field operations.
Block-3: Household characteristics like, household size, principal industry-occupation, social group, land possessed and cultivated, use of hired labour, monthl y per capita expenditure etc. were recorded in ths block.
Block-4: In this Block the detailed demographic particulars including age, sex, educational level school attendan ce, principal and subsidiary statuses, the industry, occupation of the employed, distance to place of work etc. were re corded.
Block-5: This was used to record the daily time disposition. Apart form recording the different activities from among the various status codes explained in the earlier part of this section, the i ndustry and type of ‘operation’ for rural areas were also recorded. For a day utmost two activity statuses could be recorded, an activity status getting an intensity of ‘half or full’ depending on the time spent on it. No limits on the number of activities that could be reported in a week was specified. The current weekly status of the person derived form the various daily activity statuses followed in the week and the corresponding industry-occupation was also recorded in this block. Besi des the above, the wage and salary earnings were also entered in this block.
Block-6: Block 6 was used to record the answers to certain probing questions to the unemployed. The unemployed for this purpose were those who had not worked on any day of the reference week. These probing questions included among other things the academic performance, particulars of work sought, details of past employment, reasons for unemployment, length of spell of unemployment, type of efforts made etc.
Block-7 : Further probing questions on the usually employed on the qualitative aspects of employment were made in Block 7. These included occupational mobility, availability for additional work and reasons, extent of under utilisation of labour time, membership of trade unions, nature of employer, permanency of employment etc..
Block-8: A major innovation in this survey was the attempt to specifically collect information on the activity profiles of children. In order to build up the profile, the school attendance status of the hildren,reason for non-attendance, extent of participation in household chores, information on the type of work done and the industry in which worked, reason for working, economic benefits derived by the household from such work , its effect on studies etc. were ascertained for all children aged in the 5-14 years age group in the sample household. All this information was reco rded in Block 8.
Block-9: In Block 9, the follow up questions were asked to or about those who reportedly were engaged in domestic duties. This block was canvassed as in th e previous surveys .
Block-10: Block 10 was canvassed as part of the rural labour enquiry being undertaken for the Labour Bureau by the NSSO and which is integrated with the employment survey.
Blocks 11 & 12: used for recording the remarks of the investigator and comments of supervisory officers respectively.
Topic | Vocabulary | URI |
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Labor Markets | World Bank | http://www.surveynetwork.org/toolkit |
Coverage
The fifth quinquennial survey was conducted during the 50th round survey operations from July 1993 to June, 1994. Generally the NSSO surveys cover the entire country with the exception of certain interior areas of Nagala nd and the Andaman & Nicobar Islands. However in this round besides the above, in the state of Jammu & Kashmir out of the 12 Districts, only three Districts could be surveyed. These Districts viz. Jammu, Kathua and Udhampur are however included in the all India estimates.. The survey used the interview method of data collection from a sample of randomly selected households and members of the householdProducers and Sponsors
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National Sample Survey Office | M/o Statistcs and Programme Implementation(MOSPI),Government of India (GOI) |
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Survey Design Reearch Division | National Sample Survey Office | Questionnaire Desgn, Sampling methodology,Survey Reports |
Field Operations Division | National Sample Survey Office | Field Work |
Data Processing Division | National Sample Survey Office | Data Processing |
Computer Centre | M/o Statistcs and Programme Implementation(MOSPI),Government of India (GOI) | Tabulation and Dissemination |
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M/o Statistics & Programme Implementation, GOI | MOSPI |
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Governing council and Working Group | GOI | Finalisation of survey study and Questionnaire |
Metadata Production
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Computer Centre | MOSPI, CC | M | Documentation of the study |