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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Type of job contract (Type_of_Job_Contract)

Data file: Block_5_1_Usual principal activity particulars of household members

Overview

Valid: 61746

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Start: 62

End: 62

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: character

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

Type of job contract: It is to be ascertained for each employee whether for the job in which he/she is engaged, there is any written contract or agreement, irrespective of whether such contract is protected under national legislation or not, in respect of duration of employment with his/her employer. For those who reports to have written job contract with their employer, further probing may be done in respect of the length of duration of job contracted, and the information so obtained may be recorded in terms of the code 2, 3 or 4, depending upon the length of such contract, as given below:
no written job contract……………………………….1
written job contract:
for 1 year or less…………………………..2
for more than 1 year to 3 years……………3
more than 3 years………………………….4

Literal question

Type of job contract ( code)

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	NA / NR	0	0%
1	No written job contract	44170	71.5%
2	Written job contract: For 1 year or less	1451	2.3%
3	Written job contract: More than 1 year to 3 years	866	1.4%
4	Written job contract: More than 3 years	15259	24.7%

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 for each employee (i.e., those with code 31, 41, or 51 in column 3) whether for the job in which he/she is engaged, there is any written contract or agreement, whether protected under national legislation or not, in respect of duration of employment with his/her employer. For those who reports to have written job contract with their employer, further probing may be done in respect of the length of duration of job contracted, and the information so obtained may be recorded in terms of the code 2, 3 or 4, depending upon the length of such contract, as given below:
: no written job contract -1; written job contract: for 1 year or less -2, more than 1 year to 3 years -3, more than 3 years -4.

If the contract of employment specifies a particular date of termination which is more than 3 years or if the type of job contracted is such that no time is fixed but the contract can only be terminated for certain administrative reasons such as incompetence, misconduct or for economic reasons then code 4 will be recorded. However, if no written contract exists, then irrespective of the duration of employment, code 1 will be recorded

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