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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Available for alternative work? (Sought_available_for_alternative)

Data file: Block_7pt1_level_08

Overview

Valid: 242157

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Start: 59

End: 59

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: character

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

Follow-up questions on availability for work to persons working in the usual principal or subsidiary status (i.e., those with codes 11-51 in col. 3 of bl. 5.1 or bl. 5.2)

Literal question

whether sought/
available
for
alterna-tive work during the days he/she had work (code)

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	NR	0	0%
1	Yes: on most days	8836	3.6%
2	Yes: on some days	8181	3.4%
3	No	225140	93%

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

Whether sought/ available for alternative work during the days he/ she had work: As in the case of availability for additional work, information in respect of a person's availability for alternative work (i.e., work instead of the present work) will be collected with reference to that period of last 365 days during which he/ she was employed either in principal status or in subsidiary status or in both the status. The entry will be made in codes as given below.

yes : on most days ..................... 1
on some days ..................... 2
no ............................................... 3

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