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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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Reason for seeking/ available for alternative work (Reason_Available_for_Alt_work)

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: 8604
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Start: 59
End: 59
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: character

Questions and instructions

Question pretext
Follow-up questions on availability for work to persons working in the usual principal or subsidiary status (i.e., those with codes 11-51 in col. 3 of bl. 5.1 or bl. 5.2)
Literal question
for codes
1 & 2 in
col. 14,
reason (code)
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Present work not remunerative enough 4510
52.4%
2 No job satisfaction 1173
13.6%
3 Lack of job security 665
7.7%
4 Workplace too far 135
1.6%
5 Wants wage/salary job 1243
14.4%
9 Others 878
10.2%
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
Reason for seeking/ available for alternative work: For the persons who 'sought/ available' for alternative work at least for some days, i.e., for persons with codes 1 and 2 in column (12), the reason for doing so will be recorded in codes as follows:

present work not remunerative enough ...……. 1
no job satisfaction ....................................….... 2
lack of job security ..................................…… 3
work place too far ...................................….... 4
wants wage/salary job ............................….... 5
others ......................................................….... 9

Description

Definition
Reason for seeking/ available for alternative work: For the persons who 'sought/ available' for alternative work at least for some days.
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