India - Employment and Unemployment : NSS 66th round, Schedule 10, July 2009 - June 2010

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-66-10-2011

Year

2009 - 2010

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

Sponsor(s)

Govt. of India - -
Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation - -

Collection(s)

National Sample Survey

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(Last_Employment_Status)
File: Block_6_Follow-up questions for persons unemployed on all the 7 days of the week

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 2

Valid cases: 6740
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Pre question

follow-up questions for persons unemployed on all the 7 days of the week (i.e., code 1 in col. 23 of bl. 5.3)
and

for code 1 in col. 4 [ i.e code-1( for Yes) against Whether ever employed ( Yes-1, No-2 ) ? ] then

Particulars of last employment.

Literal question

Last employment status ( code )

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
00	NA / NR	4722	70.1%
11	Worked in h.h. enterprise (self-employed): own account worker	288	4.3%
12	Employer	16	0.2%
21	Worked as helper in h.h. enterprise (unpaid family worker)	127	1.9%
31	Worked as regular salaried/ wage employee	482	7.2%
41	Worked as casual wage labour : in public works	45	0.7%
51	Worked as casual wage labour : In other types of work	1060	15.7%

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

Status refers to the usual work activity status during the period he/ she was employed like self-employment, casual labour, etc., and the codes used for usual work activity status relating to employment (i.e. codes 11-51) only will be applicable. The activity status and corresponding codes are as follows:

code structure same as in col. (3), block 5.1 (only codes 11-51 are applicable).