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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Availability of social security benefits (Social_Security_Benefits)

Data file: Block_5_1_Usual principal activity particulars of household members

Overview

Valid: 61739

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Start: 64

End: 64

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: character

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

Availability of social security benefits: It ascertained from the employees whether they are covered under any of the specified social security benefits or a combination of them which are arranged or for which contribution is made by the employer. The following code structure is to be adopted for recording the entry against this column:

eligible for:
only PF/ pension (i.e., GPF, CPF, PPF, pension, etc.) …….…. 1
only gratuity ………………………………………………….. 2
only health care & maternity benefits………………………… 3
only PF/ pension and gratuity…………………………………. 4
only PF/ pension and health care & maternity benefits………. 5
only gratuity and health care & maternity benefits.…………... 6
PF/ pension, gratuity and health care & maternity benefits .… 7
not eligible for any of above social security benefits …………………. 8
not known…………………………………………………………….. 9

Literal question

Availability of social security benefits (code)

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	NA / NR	0	0%
1	Eligible for: only PF/ pension (i.e., GPF, CPF, PPF, pension, etc.)	4385	7.1%
2	Eligible for: only gratuity	410	0.7%
3	Eligible for: only health care & maternity benefits	616	1%
4	Eligible for: only PF/ pension and gratuity	998	1.6%
5	Eligible for: only PF/ pension and health care & maternity benefits	979	1.6%
6	Eligible for: only gratuity and health care & maternity benefits	585	0.9%
7	Eligible for: PF/ pension, gratuity, health care & maternity benefits	12720	20.6%
8	Not eligible for any of above social security benefits	38971	63.1%
9	not known	2075	3.4%

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

It will be ascertained from the employees whether they are covered under any of the specified social security benefits or a combination of them which are arranged or for which contribution is made by the employer. The following code structure is to be adopted for recording the entry against this column:

eligible for: only PF/ pension (i.e., GPF, CPF, PPF, pension, etc.) -1,
only gratuity -2, only health care & maternity benefits -3, only PF/ pension and gratuity -4, only PF/ pension and health care & maternity benefits -5, only gratuity and health care & maternity benefits -6, PF/ pension, gratuity, health care & maternity benefits -7; not eligible for any of above social security benefits -8.

The term Provident Fund (PF) will include General Provident Fund, Contributory Provident Fund, Public Provident Fund, Employees Provident Fund, etc. It may be mentioned that coverage under any of these social security schemes will mean that the employer contributes/ arranges/ pays in implementing the social security benefits for the worker. If an employee operates, in his/ her individual capacity, a PPF account and the employer is not contributing in that account then it will not be considered a social security benefit. On the contrary, a scheme, in which both the employee and the employer contribute, will be considered a social security benefit. When benefits are given by the employer for treatment of illness/ injury or an employee is eligible for paid leave for a specified period of pre-natal/ childbirth/ post-natal stage or the expenditure for maternity care or childbirth is borne by the employer as per the conditions of employment, then such benefits will be considered as health care & maternity benefits. There may be cases where the employer is not directly contributing in a social security scheme for the employees, but being the member of the welfare association or organization or scheme in relation to the specific activity carried out by the employer, the employees get the benefit from that welfare association/ organization/ scheme. Such cases will also be considered as social security benefits availed through the employer and appropriate code will be assigned. If availability of social security benefits is not known to the employee, a dash (-) may be put in this column.

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