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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
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National Sample Survey Office
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Employment and Unemployment
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Reason for migration (B3_q11)

Data file: Block-3-household-characteristics-ecords

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Start: 67
End: 68
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: character

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Categories
Value Category
01 In search of employment
02 In search of better employment
03 Business
04 To take up employment/better employment
05 Transfer of service/ contract
06 Proximity to place of work
07 Studies
08 Natural disaster (drought, flood, tsunami, etc.)
10 Social/political problems (riots, terrorism, political refugee, bad law and order, etc.)
11 Displacement by development project
12 Acquisition of own house/flat
13 Housing problems
14 Health care
15 Post retirement
16 Marriage
17 Migration of parent/earning member of the family
19 Others;
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 household, which has migrated, the reason for such migration will be ascertained and recorded in codes. While ascertaining the reason, it may be noted that though different members of the household may have different reasons for migration, only that factor which is the basic reason for migration of the household is to be ascertained and recorded. This reasons for migration of the household is to be recorded in terms of the codes:
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