Household Consumer Expenditure, Jan - June 1998
NSS 54th Round

India, 1998

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Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-54Rnd-Sch1.0-1998

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

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Household Consumption Expenditure

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Usual Activity. Principal NIC code (B4_q9)

Data file: Block 4_Person records

Overview

Valid: 48840

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Start: 66

End: 66

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: character

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Which industry has the member of the household worked in during the last one year?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	agriculture, hunting, forestry & fishing	30857	63.2%
1	mining and quarrying	319	0.7%
2	manufacturing	2434	5%
3	manufacturing	1361	2.8%
4	electricity, gas and water	359	0.7%
5	construction	2181	4.5%
6	wholesale and retail trade and restaurants and hotels	3926	8%
7	transport, storage and communication	1433	2.9%
8	financial, insurance, real estate and business services	434	0.9%
9	community, social & personal services	5536	11.3%

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

For the persons categorised 'working' (i.e., those with status codes 11-51), the corresponding 'industry section' will be recorded in terms of the specified codes. The codes are ;

description code

agriculture, hunting, forestry & fishing ................. 0
mining and quarrying ..................................... 1
manufacturing .............................................2/3
electricity, gas and water ................................ 4
construction .............................................. 5
wholesale and retail trade, restaurants & hotels ...........6
transport, storage & communication services ................7
financial, insurance, real estate and business services ....8
community, social & personal services ......................9

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Household Consumer Expenditure, Jan - June 1998 NSS 54th Round