Employment and Unemployment Survey, July 2005 - June 2006
NSS 62nd Round

India, 2005 - 2006

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Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-62nd-Sch10-2005-06

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

Collections

Employment and Unemployment

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Usual principal activity - Status (B5_q3)

Data file: Block-5-Persons-usual-activity-records

Overview

Valid: 377377

Invalid: 0

Minimum: None

Maximum: None

Mean: None

Standard deviation: None

Type: Discrete

Width: 2

Format: character

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Usual principal activity - Status(code)

Interviewer instructions

For each of the members, the usual principal activity status will be recorded in this column. In the first instance, the broad usual principal activity of the person will be identified based on the various activities pursued by the person during the reference period of last 365 days adopting a 'relatively long time (or major time)' criterion, not necessarily for a continuous period. The broad usual principal activity status will be one of the three categories viz. 'employed' (working), 'unemployed' (available for work) or 'not in labour force' (neither working nor available for work). It is to be noted that in deciding this, only the period normally available in a day for pursuing various activities need to be considered, and not the 24 hours of a day.

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Employment and Unemployment Survey, July 2005 - June 2006 NSS 62nd Round