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

Collections

Employment and Unemployment

Metadata

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Last employment- Status (Last_employment_Status)

Data file: Block_6_level_07

Overview

Valid: 4189

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Start: 47

End: 48

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: character

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

Follow-up questions for persons unemployed on all the 7 days of the week (i.e., code 1 in col. 23 of bl. 5.3)

Literal question

For code 1 in col. 4( i.e if ever employed during the week ) , particulars of last employment : status
(code)

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
11	Worked in h.h. enterprise (self-employed): own account worker	677	16.2%
12	Employer	24	0.6%
21	Worked as helper in h.h. enterprise (unpaid family worker)	373	8.9%
31	Worked as regular salaried/ wage employee	932	22.2%
41	Worked as casual wage labour : in public works	20	0.5%
51	Worked as casual wage labour : In other types of work	2163	51.6%

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

Status refers to the usual status during the period he/ she was employed like self-employment, casual labour, etc. and the codes used for usual status relating to employment (i.e. codes 11-51) only will be applicable. The activity status and corresponding codes are as follows:

worked in household enterprise(self-employed):
own account worker…………………………………………………...11
employer……………………………………………………………… 12
worked as helper in household enterprise (unpaid family worker)….... 21

worked as regular salaried/wage employee…………………….…….……….. 31

worked as casual wage labour:
in public works…………………………………………………..……. 41
in other types of work………………………………………………… 51

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