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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Period of seeking / available for work during last 365 days (Availability_of_work)

Data file: Block_5pt1_level_04

Overview

Valid: 521900

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Start: 65

End: 65

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: character

Questions and instructions

Literal question

For persons of age 5 years and above, period of seeking / available for work during last 365 days (code)

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	NA / NR	0	0%
1	Sought/available for: less than 1 month	2228	0.4%
2	Sought/available for: 1 to 2 months	12473	2.4%
3	Sought/available for: 3 to 6 months	24963	4.8%
4	Sought/available for: 7 to 9 months	1059	0.2%
5	Sought/available for: 10 to 12 months	6651	1.3%
6	Did not seek/ not available	474526	90.9%

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

For persons of age 5 years and above, it is to be ascertained whether they were seeking/ available for work for some period during last 365 days. The period, which need not necessarily be continuous, for which the person was seeking/ available for work during last 365 days will be first rounded off to the nearest number of months and then appropriate code is to be given. For example, a person may be employed in his/ her principal usual activity status based on the major time criterion. But he/ she may have been looking for work for some period. Similarly, a girl may have been looking for job for sometime but subsequently got married and was engaged in the domestic duties. The latter activity might have been pursued for a relatively longer period. In all such cases, one of the codes 1 to 5, applicable for the situation, will be given. If a person was not seeking or available for work any time during the preceding 365 days, the appropriate code will be 6.

The code structure for period of seeking/ availability for work is as given below:
sought/ available for:
less than 1 month………………………….1
1 to 2 months ………………………….….2
3 to 6 months ………………………….….3
7 to 9 months ……………………….…….4
10 to 12 months ……………………….….5
did not seek/ not available………………………………………..6

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