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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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Seeking/ available for work Seeking/ available for work (Seeking_available_for_work)

Data file: Block_5_1_Usual principal activity particulars of household members

Overview

Valid: 414244
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Start: 66
End: 66
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: character

Questions and instructions

Question pretext
Period of seeking/ available for work during last 365 days: For persons of age 5 years and above, it is to be ascertained whether they were seeking/ available for work for some period during last 365 days. The period, which need not necessarily be continuous, for which the person was seeking/ available for work during last 365 days first rounded off to the nearest number of months and then appropriate code is to be given.
The code structure for period of seeking/ availability for work is as given below:
sought/ available for: :
less than 1 month……………………………..…….1
1 month & above but less than 3 months …..….….2
3 months & above but less than 7 months……...….3
7 months & above but less than 10 months ……….4
10 months to 12 months ………………….….….…5
did not seek/ not available…………………………………………..……..6
Literal question
Whether worked under given specifications ( code ) ?
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 sought/ available for: :less than 1 month 1661
0.4%
2 sought/ available for:1 month & above but less than 3 months 11141
2.7%
3 sought/ available for: 3 months & above but less than 7 months 8134
2%
4 sought/ available for:7 months & above but less than 10 months 645
0.2%
5 sought/ available for:10 months to 12 months 3611
0.9%
6 did not seek/ not available 389052
93.9%
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 is to be ascertained whether in relation to the activity recorded in col. 3, the person carried out the production (i.e., goods and services) on the basis of given or laid product-specifications of the 'employer'. The term 'employer' means a person, natural or legal, who, either directly or through an intermediary, whether or not intermediaries are provided for in national legislation, gives out home work in pursuance of his or her business activity. When a person procures the order/contract from the 'employer' for his or her household enterprise to supply goods, normally an implicit or explicit specification of the product, written or oral, is laid by the 'employer'. Sometimes, the whole activity is carried out under the specifications of the 'employer', or a part under the specifications of the 'employer' and rest of his own specification. The appropriate situation is to be ascertained and be recorded in codes. Note that most of the self-employed carry out activities on their own specification and for all the customers. They will get code 4. The relevant codes are given below:
yes: wholly -1, mainly -2, partly -3; no-4, not known -9

The situation of whether the self-employed person has worked under given specification of the 'employer', is to be adjudged corresponding to the activity status (recorded in col. 3) and the industry (recorded in col. 5) at 2 -digit level of NIC-2004. If the production of the whole range of products/services corresponding to the activity of the self-employed person is carried out according to the product specification of the 'employer', code 1 will be recorded. On the other hand, if majority of the production, in terms of value of output (i.e., more than or equal to 50 per cent), is carried out according to the product specification of the 'employer', applicable code will be 2. However, if only a part of the production is carried out according to the product specification of the 'employer', code will be 3. If the self-employed person does not work under the product specification of any 'employer' code will be 4.
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