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Household Consumer Expenditure, Jan - Dec 1997
NSS 53rd Round

India, 1997
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DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-53Rnd-Sch1.0-1997
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Household Consumption Expenditure
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Weekly Activity. Status (B4_q12)

Data file: Block 4_Person records

Overview

Valid: 249834
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Start: 68
End: 69
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: character

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Which industry has the member of the household worked in during the last 7 days?
Categories
Value Category Cases
11 worked in household enterprise (self employed) 30093
12%
12 worked in household enterprise (self employed) as an employer 859
0.3%
21 worked in household enterprise (self employed) as ‘helper’ 13196
5.3%
31 worked as regular salaried/wage employee 18634
7.5%
41 worked as casual wage labour in public works 595
0.2%
51 casual wage labour in other types of works 21884
8.8%
61 did not work due to sickness though there was work in household enterprise 98
0%
62 did not work due to other reasons though there was work in household enterprise 80
0%
71 did not work due to sickness but had regular salaried/wage employment 40
0%
72 did not work due to other reasons but had regular salaried/wage employment 37
0%
81 sought work 2961
1.2%
82 did not seek but was available for work 145
0.1%
91 attended educational institution 60050
24%
92 attended domestic duties only 42739
17.1%
93 attended domestic duties and was also engaged in free collection of goods, tailoring, weaving, etc. for household use 11777
4.7%
94 recipients of rent, pension, remittance, etc. 2073
0.8%
95 not able to work due to disability 1214
0.5%
96 beggars, prostitutes, etc. 248
0.1%
97 others 18014
7.2%
98 did not work due to sickness (for casual workers only) 89
0%
99 not properly reported 25008
10%
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 current weekly activity status of a person will be the activity status obtaining for a person during a reference period of seven days preceding the date of survey. Irrespective of the usual activity pursued by a person, his/her current weekly activity will be determined strictly on the basis of the activities pursued by the person during the reference period of seven days preceding the date of survey adopting the priority criterion. Even for self-employed persons, one need not prejudge and take for granted that the current activity situation for them will be identical with the usual activity situation. A careful probe on the part of the investigator regarding the various activities pursued by the person during the seven days preceding the date of survey is, therefore, necessary for ascertaining his/her current weekly activity status. In defining the 'activity status', it has already been mentioned that the activities are grouped broadly into three categories, namely :

(i) working,
(ii) not working but seeking and/or available for work, and
(iii) neither working nor available for work.

According to the priority criterion, the status of ' working' gets priority over the status 'not working but seeking and/or
available for work' which in turn gets priority over the status of 'neither working nor available for work'. In the category,
'not working but seeking and/or available for work', the status 'seeking' gets priority over the status of 'not seeking but
available for work'. A person would be considered 'working (or employed)' if he/she while pursuing any economic activity had worked for at least one hour on any one day during the week preceding the date of survey. A person would be considered 'seeking and/or available for work (or unemployed)' if during the reference week no 'work' was done by the person but he or she had made efforts to get work or had been available for work during the reference week though not actively seeking work, in the belief that no work was available. A person who had neither worked nor was available for work will be considered to be engaged in non-economic activities (or not in labour force).
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