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Household Consumer Expenditure, July 1995 - June 1996
NSS 52nd Round

India, 1995 - 1996
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DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-52Rnd-Sch1.0-1995
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National Sample Survey Office
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Household Consumption Expenditure
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Usual Activity. Principal Status (B4_q8)

Data file: Block 4_Person records

Overview

Valid: 238515
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Start: 64
End: 65
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: character

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Which industry has the member of the household usually worked in during the last one year?
Categories
Value Category Cases
11 worked in household enterprise (self employed) as an own account worker 31179
13.1%
12 worked in household enterprise (self employed) as an employer 771
0.3%
21 worked in household enterprise (self employed) as ‘helper’ 16221
6.8%
31 worked as regular salaried/wage employee 15464
6.5%
41 worked as casual wage labour in public works 524
0.2%
51 casual wage labour in other types of works 22453
9.4%
81 seeking work and available for work 2169
0.9%
91 attended educational institution 53467
22.4%
92 attended domestic duties only 35228
14.8%
93 attended domestic duties and was also engaged in free collection of goods, tailoring, weaving, etc. for household use 13478
5.7%
94 recipients of rent, pension, remittance, etc. 1415
0.6%
95 not able to work due to disability 625
0.3%
96 beggars, prostitutes, etc. 147
0.1%
97 others 18752
7.9%
99 not properly reported 26622
11.2%
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
In the first instance the broad principal usual activity of the person will be identified based on the various activities pursued by the person during the reference period of last 365 days adopting a relatively long time (or major time) criterion, not necessarily for a continuous period. The broad principal usual activity status will be one of the three categories viz. 'employed' (working), 'unemployed' (available for work) or 'not in labour force' (neither willing nor available for work). It is to be noted that in deciding this, only the normal working hours available for pursuing various activities need be considered, and not the 24 hours of a day. The broad principal usual activity status will be obtained on the basis of a two- stage dichotomous classification depending on the major time spent. Persons will be classified in the first stage into
(i)those who are engaged in any economic activity (i.e., employed) and/or available for any economic activity (i.e.
unemployed) and
(ii) who are not engaged and not available for any economic activity i.e. the persons will be first classified as those in the labour force and those not in the labour force depending on in which of these two statuses the person spent major part of the year.

In the second stage, those who are found in the labour force will be further classified into working (i.e., engaged in economic activity or employed) and seeking and/or available for work (i.e., unemployed) based on the major time spent.

Description

Definition
The usual activity status relates to the activity status of a person during the reference period of 365 days preceding the date of survey. The activity status on which a person spent relatively longer time (major time criterion) during the 365 days preceding the date of survey is considered the principal usual activity status of the person.
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