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Employment and Unemployment, July 2011- June 2012
NSS 68th Round

India, 2011 - 2012
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DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-68-10-2013
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National Sample Survey Office
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Employment and Unemployment
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Household has MGNREG(Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee ) job card ? (NREG_Job_Card)

Data file: Block_3_Household characteristics

Overview

Valid: 59700
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Start: 80
End: 80
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: character

Questions and instructions

Question pretext
Whether the household has MGNREG job card?: Under the provisions of the MGNREG Act, the Gram Panchayat is to issue job cards to every registered household. The Photographs of the adult members ("adult" means a person who has completed his eighteenth years of age) who are applicants are attached to the job cards. The job cards shall be valid for a period of five years and will have provision for the addition/deletion of members eligible for work. If name of at least one member of the sample household is listed in any job card, entry will be 1, else entry 2 will be recorded.
Literal question
Whether the household has NREG job card (yes-1, no-2) ?
Categories
Value Category Cases
0 NA / NR 0
0%
1 Yes 22011
36.9%
2 No 37689
63.1%
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
Under the provisions of the NREGA, the Gram Panchayat is to issue job cards to every registered household. The Photographs of the adult members ("adult" means a person who has completed his eighteenth years of age) who are applicants have to be attached to the job cards. The application for registration may be given on plain paper to the local Gram Panchayat. It should contain names of those adult members of the household who are willing to do unskilled manual work. The job cards shall be valid for a period of five years and will have provision for the addition/deletion of members eligible for work. If the household has a NREGA job card, entry will be 1 in this item, otherwise entry will be 2.

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Definition
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee (MGNREG)
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