India - Employment and Unemployment Survey: NSS 38th Round, Schedule 10, 1983

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DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-38Rnd-Sch10-1983

Year

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India

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National Sample Survey Office

Sponsor(s)

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

Collection(s)

National Sample Survey

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Current weekly activity Status(CWAS) (B41_q14)
File: Block-41-Persons-Demogrphic-weelyActivity-records

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 2

Valid cases: 623494
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Current weekly activity Status(CWAS) code?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
01	Attached to land lord.	429	0.1%
02	Attached to money lender.	12	0.0%
03	Attached to land lord-cum-money lender.	18	0.0%
04	Attached to others.	195	0.0%
11	Worked (self-employed) in household enterprise.	85960	13.8%
21	worked as helper in household enterprise.	36877	5.9%
31	worked as regular salaried/wage employee.	39960	6.4%
41	worked as casual wage labour in public works.	1663	0.3%
51	worked as casual wage labour in other types of work	49402	7.9%
61	Did not work though there was work in the household enterprise	1149	0.2%
71	Did not work but had regular salaried/wage employment	970	0.2%
81	Sought work.	8290	1.3%
82	Did not seek but was available for work.	2610	0.4%
91	Attended education institution.	114194	18.3%
92	Attended domestic duties only.	80876	13.0%
93	Attended domestic duties and was also Engaged in free collection of good, sewing, tailoring, weaving etc. for household use	41488	6.7%
94	Too young to work/attend school/seek employment.	124688	20.0%
95	Old and disabled.	20244	3.2%
96	Rentiers, pensioners, remittance recipients etC.	2375	0.4%
97	Beggars, prostitutes, etc.	507	0.1%
98	Others.	10019	1.6%
99	Did not work due to sickness (for casual workers only)	1568	0.3%

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 current weekly activity status of a person will be the activity status obtaining for a person during a reference period of seven days preceding the date of survey. Irrespective of the usual activity pursued by a person, his/her current weekly activity will be determined strictly on the basis of the activities pursued by the person during the reference period of seven days adopting the priority criterion.