Employment and Unemployment Survey, July 1993 - June 1994
NSS 50th Round

India, 1993 - 1994

Get Microdata

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-50Rnd-Sch10-1993-94

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

Collections

Employment and Unemployment

Metadata

DDI/XML JSON

Created on

Jan 17, 2018

Last modified

Mar 27, 2019

Page views

222289

Downloads

24928

Reason for working (code) (B8_q9)

Data file: Block-8-Children-Records

Overview

Valid: 1551

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Start: 51

End: 51

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: character

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

Check whetherattending school and also working. If yes,ask.

Literal question

Reason for working (code)

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Supplement Hh Income	530	34.2%
2	Shortage Of Labour In Hh Enterprise	419	27%
3	To Acquire Skill	80	5.2%
4	To Meet Personal Expenses	23	1.5%
5	To Spend Vacation Time	247	15.9%
6	Forced To Repay Loan	2	0.1%
9	Others	250	16.1%

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 which forces the child to work will be recorded in codes. Code 6 is intended for cases where the child is forced to work as part of repayment of hereditary loan or a loan contracted by other members of the household. The child in this case may not be getting any pay or may begetting a nominal pay only. In case more than one reasons are found applicable to a child, the one which appears first in the code list will be given. For a member who is an employee or a domestic servant, the reference of the hh. in the reason code will mean his/her parent hh. In case he/she do not have any parent hh., then one of the codes 3 & 4 will be applicable to him/her.

Question post text

Not attending school? skip to Question 13

Back to Catalog

Employment and Unemployment Survey, July 1993 - June 1994 NSS 50th Round