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

India

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Reference ID

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

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

Collections

Employment and Unemployment

Metadata

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Seeking or available for work for the firsttime ? (B8_q5)

Data file: Block-8-Persons-Addl-Questions-UsualActivity-records

Overview

Valid: 11323

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Start: 51

End: 51

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: character

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

Ask this Question if activity status (Q.2) is 81 only

Literal question

Were you seeking or available for work for the first time?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Yes	6292	55.6%
2	No	4945	43.7%
9	Invalid	86	0.8%

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

The question- 'were you seeking or available for work for the first time?' listed against item 5- will be put to only those who have been classified as 'seeking and/or available for work' according to usual status (i.e. those with usual activity status code 81). The answer obtained will be recorded in code numbers (yes-1, no-2) against this item in the relevant box space.

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