Usual Principal activity status
(Usual_Principal_Activity_Status)
File: Block_6_Follow-up questions on availability for work, existence of union or association and nature of employment for persons working in the usual principal or subsidiary status
Overview
Type:
Discrete
Format: character
Width: 2
| Valid cases: 172281
Invalid: 0
|
Questions and instructions
Pre question
Usual Principal activity status and usual subsidiary activity status: The usual principal activity status and usual subsidiary activity status
Literal question
usual activity status code :: Principal
Categories
|
11
|
Worked in h.h. enterprise (self-employed): own account worker
|
58515
|  34.0%
|
|
12
|
Employer
|
2746
| 1.6%
|
|
21
|
Worked as helper in h.h. enterprise (unpaid family worker)
|
23670
| 13.7%
|
|
31
|
Worked as regular salaried/ wage employee
|
39896
| 23.2%
|
|
41
|
Worked as casual wage labour : in public works
|
1664
| 1.0%
|
|
51
| Worked as casual wage labour : In other types of work |
31844
| 18.5%
|
|
81
|
Did not work but was seeking and/or available for work
|
706
| 0.4%
|
|
91
|
Attended educational institution
|
1314
| 0.8%
|
|
92
|
Attended domestic duties only
|
3445
| 2.0%
|
|
93
|
Attended domestic duties and was also engaged in free collection of goods (vegetables, roots, firewood, cattle feed, etc.), sewing, tailoring, weaving, etc. for household use
|
8071
| 4.7%
|
|
94
|
Rentiers, pensioners , remittance recipients, etc.
|
265
| 0.2%
|
|
95
|
Not able to work due to disability
|
14
| 0.0%
|
|
97
| Others (including begging, prostitution, etc.) |
131
| 0.1%
|
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
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).
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