Survey on Health Care July - June 1995-96
NSS 52nd Round

India, 1995 - 1996

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IND-NSSO-SHC-1995-v2.1

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Usual activity for major part (MAJOR_USUAL_ACT)

Data file: Block 10

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Start: 41

End: 41

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: character

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Literal question

Usual activity for major part of working life (code)

Categories

Value	Category
0	No response
1	self employed in agriculture
2	in non-agriculture
3	regular employee
4	casual labour in agriculture
5	in non agriculture
6	unemployed
7	students
8	engaged in domestic duties
9	others

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 usual activity status of the aged person during the major part of his/her working life were collected here. The usual activity status were recorded in codes as follows : Self employed in : Agriculture........ 1 Non-agriculture.... 2 Regular wage/salaried employee......... 3 Casual labour in : Agriculture........ 4 Non-agriculture.... 5 For the persons who have pursued one type of activity throughout his/her working life, assigning appropriate code will not pose any difficulty. But for the persons who have pursued more than one type of activity, assigning appropriate code may pose some problem. For them the activity pursued for the major part of the working life were obtained and appropriate status code for the activity is was recorded. For example, for the major part of working life a person was employed, say, in regular wage/salaried job. After retirement, he/she was again working in self employed capacity in agriculture and then withdrew from economic activity. For this person the appropriate usual activity code is 3.

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Survey on Health Care July - June 1995-96 NSS 52nd Round