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Household Consumer Expenditure, Jan 2003 - Dec 2003
NSS 59th Round

India
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DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-59Rnd-Sch1.0-2003
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Household Consumption Expenditure
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Weekly Activity. Status (B4_q12)

Data file: Block 4_Person records

Overview

Valid: 212864
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Start: 83
End: 84
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: character

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Weekly Activity. Status
Categories
Value Category Cases
11 worked in household enterprise (self employed) as an own account worker 27205
12.8%
12 worked in household enterprise (self employed) as an employer 973
0.5%
21 worked in household enterprise (self employed) as ‘helper’ 23138
10.9%
31 worked as regular salaried/wage employee 13524
6.4%
41 worked as casual wage labour in public works 270
0.1%
51 casual wage labour in other types of works 13321
6.3%
61 did not work due to sickness though there was work in household enterprise 45
0%
62 did not work due to other reasons though there was work in household enterprise 100
0%
71 did not work due to sickness but had regular salaried/wage employment 22
0%
72 did not work due to other reasons but had regular salaried/wage employment 31
0%
81 sought work 2388
1.1%
82 did not seek but was available for work 64
0%
91 attended educational institution 52435
24.6%
92 attended domestic duties only 29471
13.8%
93 attended domestic duties and was also engaged in free collection of goods, tailoring, weaving, etc. for household use 12565
5.9%
94 recipients of rent, pension, remittance, etc. 2413
1.1%
95 not able to work due to disability 1475
0.7%
96 beggars, prostitutes, etc. 43
0%
97 others 12686
6%
98 did not work due to sickness (for casual workers only) 59
0%
99 Not reported 20636
9.7%
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
Currently weekly activity status of a person will be recorded in this column. For a person, the appropriate broad 'status' will be determined first adopting the priority criterion. If a person categorised 'working' is found to be pursuing more than one economic activity during the reference week, the economic activity in which relatively more time has been spent will be the appropriate detailed 'status' that will be assigned to him/her. (If the time spent on the different activities is found to be equal, the activity that appears first in the list will be assigned to the person.)

Description

Definition
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 preceding the date of survey adopting the priority criterion. Even self-employed persons, one need not prejudge and take for granted that the current activity situation for them will be identical with the usual activity situation. A careful probe on the part of the investigator regarding the various activities pursued by the person during the seven days preceding the date of survey is, therefore, necessary for ascertaining his/her current weekly activity status. In defining the 'activity status', it has already been mentioned that the activities are grouped broadly into three categories, namely:
(i) working,
(ii) not working but seeking and/or available for work, and
(iii) neither working nor available for work.
According to the priority criterion, the status of 'working' gets priority over the status 'not working but seeking and/or available for work' which in turn gets priority over the status of 'neither working nor available for work'. In the category, 'not working but seeking and/or available for work', the status 'seeking' gets priority over the status of 'not seeking but available for work'. A person would be considered 'working (or employed)' if he/she while pursuing any economic activity had worked for at least one hour on any one day during the week preceding the date of survey. A person would be considered 'seeking and/or available for work (or unemployed)' if during the reference week no 'work' was done by the person but he or she had made efforts to get work or had been available for work during the reference week though not actively seeking work, in the belief that no work was available. A person who had neither worked nor was available for work will be considered to be engaged in non-economic activities (or not in labour force).
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