Employment and Unemployment, July 2004 - June 2005
NSS 61st Round

India, 2004 - 2005

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DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-61-12-2011

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National Sample Survey Office

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Employment and Unemployment

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Operation (Current_day_activity_Operation)

Data file: Block_5pt3_level_06

Overview

Valid: 178042

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Start: 50

End: 51

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: character

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

For codes 11 to 72 in col. 4 ( i.e current day activity status )

Literal question

For rural areas only : operation ( code )

Categories

Value	Cases
01	6846	3.8%
02	4089	2.3%
03	3989	2.2%
04	12725	7.1%
05	17298	9.7%
06	41273	23.2%
07	868	0.5%
08	2197	1.2%
10	15286	8.6%
11	589	0.3%
12	7083	4%
13	29116	16.4%
14	2773	1.6%
15	33910	19%

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

This column will be filled in for persons belonging to the rural households only. The actual working operation performed by the persons relevant to the status codes grouped under the activity category working (i.e., status codes 11-72) will be entered in terms of codes in this column. It may be noted that for regular salaried/wage employees on leave or holiday, the 'operation' will relate to their respective function in the work or job from which he is temporarily off in view of his taking leave or holiday. Similarly for persons categorised 'self-employed' (status codes 11, 12 & 21) if they are not at work on a particular day inspite of their having work on that day, operation to be recorded will relate to the work they would have done if they had not enjoyed leisure on that day. The relevant codes to be used for making entries in this column are:

a) manual work in cultivation :

ploughing - 01 sowing - 02 transplanting - 03
weeding - 04 harvesting -05 other cultivation activities - 06;

b) manual work in other agricultural activities :

forestry - 07 plantation - 08 animal husbandry- 10
fisheries - 11 other agricultural activities - 12;

c) manual work in non-agricultural activities - 13;

d) non-manual work in :

cultivation - 14 activities other than cultivation- 15.

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Employment and Unemployment, July 2004 - June 2005 NSS 61st Round