Employment and Unemployment Survey, January to December, 1983
38th Round

India

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DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-38Rnd-Sch10-1983

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National Sample Survey Office

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Employment and Unemployment

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Duration of present spell of unemployment (B5_q17)

Data file: Block-5-Persons-DailyActivity-records

Overview

Valid: 21272

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Start: 106

End: 106

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: character

Questions and instructions

Literal question

For persons unemployed on all the 7 days, duration of present spell of unemployment (code)

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Only one week	890	4.2%
2	Up to two weeks .	1290	6.1%
3	Up to one month.	1222	5.7%
4	Up to two months	2926	13.8%
5	Up to three months	602	2.8%
6	Up to six months	516	2.4%
7	More than six months	13826	65%

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

For each person reported as unemployed on all the seven days of the week the duration of the current continuous spell of unemployment will be recorded against the relevant total line in terms of the specified code.It may be noted that the duration to be recorded will relate only to the present spell. For example, if a person was 'unemployed, say, for two months, then employed for a short period and again unemployed and found so at the time of enumeration, for the purpose of making entry in this column for such a person the latter spell of unemployment need only be considered.

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Employment and Unemployment Survey, January to December, 1983 38th Round