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

India, 2004 - 2005

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Reference ID

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

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

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Employment and Unemployment

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Wage & Salary Earnings-Cash (Wage_salary_cash_during_the_week)

Data file: Block_5pt3_level_06

Overview

Valid: 89431

Invalid: 593075

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 116666

Mean: 756.413

Standard deviation: 1054.369

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 76

End: 81

Width: 6

Range: 0 - 116666

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

For codes 31, 41, 51, 71, 72 in col.4 ( i.e current day activity status code )

Literal question

wage and salary earnings (received or receivable) for the
work done during the week (Rs) : Cash

Interviewer instructions

The wage and salary earnings (not total earnings) receivable for the wage/ salaried work done during the reference week, separately for each of the relevant activities pursued by each person, will be recorded in these columns. The wage and salary earnings are collected for regular salaried/wage employees and casual wage labours, the relevant status codes for which wages & salary are to be recorded are 31, 41, 51, 71 and 72. The wages and salaries receivable for the work done during the reference week may be already received or may still be due to be received in cash or in kind or partly in case and partly in kind. The total wage or salary receivable for the week in cash will be recorded in column (15) and the value of salary or wages in kind (evaluated at the current retail price) receivable for the week will be recorded in column (16). The total of columns (15) and (16) will be entered in column (17). The entries for all these columns will be made in whole number in rupees. For recording the wages or salaries, amount receivable as 'overtime' for the additional work done even from the same economic activity beyond normal working time will be excluded. Bonus (expected or paid) and perquisites evaluated at retail prices duly apportioned for the reference week, will be considered as wages and included for making entries in these columns. For the activity status '71' and '72', the amount receivable for the week will be worked out on the basis of the number of days reported under the activity during the week.

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