Employment, Unemployment and Migration Survey, July 2007 - June 2008
NSS 64th Round

India, 2007 - 2008

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Reference ID

IND-NSSO-EUMS-2007-v1

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

Collections

Employment and Unemployment

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Jan 18, 2018

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Whether stayed away from village/ town (B6_c3)

Data file: Block-6-members-migration-records

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Start: 64

End: 64

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: character

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category
1	Yes
2	No

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 each person, it is to be ascertained whether during last 365 days preceding the date of survey, he/she stayed away from the village/town for 1 month or more but less than 6 months for the purpose of employment or in search of employment. Code 1 is to be assigned if the reply is in the affirmative, otherwise entry will be 2. For filling in this column, the following points may be kept in mind:

(i) for the purpose of determining the period of staying away, only those periods will be considered for which the member stayed away from the household continuously for 15 days or more during the last 365 days.
(ii) a continuous period of staying away for 15 days or more from the village/ town is termed as a spell.
(iii) a period of 30 days will be considered as 1 month.
(iv) the purpose of stay away from village/town should be 'for employment or in search of employment' only.

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Employment, Unemployment and Migration Survey, July 2007 - June 2008 NSS 64th Round