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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Reason for leaving (B42_q15)

Data file: Block-42-Persons-migration-records

Overview

Valid: 140550

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Start: 64

End: 64

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: character

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Literal question

Reason for leaving the last usual residence

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	In search of employment.	8604	6.1%
2	In search of better employment.	7239	5.2%
3	Under transfer on service/business contract.	5259	3.7%
4	For pursuing studies.	2363	1.7%
5	On marriage.	74525	53%
6	Due to migration of parent(s) earning.	28664	20.4%
7	Member(s) for political change/lack of security or social adjustment	3830	2.7%
8	Due to natural calamity.	385	0.3%
9	Due to other reasons.	9681	6.9%

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 reason for moving out of the last usual residence will be ascertained for each member listed in this block and entered in terms of the specified codes in this column. It may so happen that a person had moved out of his last usual residence for a particular reason, stayed in a different village/town for a short period (less than 6 months; if this period is 6 months or more that place will be come his last usual residence) and then moved to the place of enumeration (a village or town other than the previous one) for a different reason. In such a case only the reason which motivated his/her first movement will be recorded.

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