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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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usual subsidiary activity status (Usual_Subsidiary_Activity_Status)

Data file: Block_6_Follow-up questions on availability for work, existence of union or association and nature of employment for persons working in the usual principal or subsidiary status

Overview

Valid: 38098
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Start: 48
End: 49
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: character

Questions and instructions

Question pretext
Usual Principal activity status and usual subsidiary activity status: The usual principal activity status and usual subsidiary activity status
Literal question
usual activity status code :: Subsidiary
Categories
Value Category Cases
11 Worked in h.h. enterprise (self-employed): own account worker 11772
30.9%
12 Employer 672
1.8%
21 Worked as helper in h.h. enterprise (unpaid family worker) 11531
30.3%
31 Worked as regular salaried/ wage employee 573
1.5%
41 Worked as casual wage labour : in public works 6775
17.8%
51 Worked as casual wage labour : In other types of work 6775
17.8%
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
Usual Principal activity status and usual subsidiary activity status: The usual principal activity status and usual subsidiary activity status will be copied from column (3) of block 5.1 and 5.2 to columns (3) and (4), respectively, as described below.

(i) For persons having one of the codes 11-51 in column (3) of block 5.1, the entry in column (3) of block 7.1 will be same as that in column (3) of block 5.1. For these persons, the subsidiary status will also be recorded in column (4) and will be copied from column (3) of block 5.2. For persons with one of the codes 11-51 in column (3) of block 5.1 and not having any subsidiary economic activity, put a 'x' mark in col. (4).

(ii) For persons engaged in economic activity in subsidiary capacity only, their subsidiary status will be copied from column (3) of block 5.2 and recorded in column (4), and principal status will be copied from column (3) of block 5.1 and recorded in column (3).
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