DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-55Rnd-Sch10-and-10dot1-1999-2000
Employment and Unemployment Survey, July 1999 - June 2000
NSS 55th Round
EUS 1999-2000 : NSS 55th Round
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| India | IND |
Socio-Economic/Household Survey
The NSSO carried out the first quinquennial survey on employment - unemployment in the 27th round (September 1972 - October 1973). This first survey made a marked departure from the earlier employment surveys of NSSO in procedure and content. The concepts and procedure followed in this survey were primarily based on the recommendations of the 'Expert Committee on Unemployment Estimates' (1970). Since then, the four successive quinquennial surveys conducted in 32nd, 38th, 43rd and 50th rounds have, more or less, followed an identical approach in the measurement of employment and unemployment. Continuing in this series this was the sixth quinquennial survey conducted as 55th round from July 1999-June 2000.
The Employment and Unemployment surveys of National sample Survey (NSS) are primary sources of data on various indicators of labour force at National and State levels. These are used for planning, policy formulation, decision support and as input for further statistical exercises by various Government organizations, academicians, researchers and scholars. NSS surveys on employment and un-employment with large sample size of households have been conducted quinquennially from 27th. round(October'1972 - September'1973) onwards.Since then, the four successive quinquennial surveys conducted in 32nd, 38th, 43rd and 50th rounds have, more or less, followed an identical approach in the measurement of employment and unemployment. The basic approach in all these four quinquennial surveys have been the collection of data to generate the estimates of employment and unemployment according to the 'usual status' based on a reference period of one year, the 'current weekly status' based on a reference period of one week, and the 'current daily status' based on each day of the previous week. In order to reveal the multi-dimensional aspects of the employment-unemployment situation in India, information on several correlates were also gathered in these surveys. Sets of probing questions on some of these aspects have also been one of the basic features of these surveys.
A Working Group was set up for the purpose of finalising the survey methodology and schedules of enquiry of the 55th round. Considering all the aspects of current data demand and usefulness of the survey results, the Group has suggested a few improvisations, additions and deletions in the content of the schedule of enquiry for the present survey. The major changes made in the schedule for employment and unemployment survey vis-à-vis the previous quinquennial survey are given below:
a) Instead of recording the details for one subsidiary usual economic activity of all the members of the household, the details of two subsidiary usual economic activities pursued for relatively more time were be recorded.
b) Certain probing questions to identify the employment in the unincorporated enterprises (i.e., the proprietary and partnership enterprises other than those covered under Annual Survey of Industries (ASI)) will be asked to the workers according to usual principal as well as subsidiary statuses. This apart, information to identify 'homeworkers' were collected in this round.
c) In addition to the information on the changes undergone in industry and/or occupation of the usually employed persons during last 2 years, provisions were made to record changes in the status of work as well as the establishment of work during the same reference period. In all such cases where changes in any of these would be reported, the previous position obtaining for the person in that regard were ascertained.
d) Migration particulars of each of the members of the sample household were collected, as was done in the fourth quinquennial survey (NSS 43rd round).
e) Probing questions, framed to get data on participation of persons in specified household chores, were put only to females instead of all persons usually engaged in household chores.
f) The schedules on Employment - Unemployment and Consumer Expenditure are to be canvassed in independent sets of households. Since the monthly per capita expenditure of a household is an important classificatory variable for the study of employment- unemployment, household expenditure on broad groups of items were recorded so as to work out monthly per capita expenditure of the household.
g) A sub-sample of FSUs were repeated in two consecutive sub-rounds. The households selected and surveyed in a sub-round were re-visited in the next sub-round for collection of data on employment and unemployment only. The newly formed households, if found, during the second visit to the FSU constituted second-stage stratum 9 and a sample of households were selected from them for canvassing Schedule 10 (and not Schedule 10.1).
h) All the items of information contained in Schedule 10 were not be collected in the second visit. A separate Schedule 10.1 was designed (retaining few blocks of Schedule 10) and used for data collection in the second visit. It is important to note that for the items retained in Schedule 10.1, the reference of block, item or column (i.e., block no., item no. and column no.) were the same as those of Schedule 10 meant for first visit, unless otherwise specifically mentioned.
the same concepts, definitions and procedures were followed for collection of data in the second visit.
Work Programme: The survey period of one year was divided into four sub-rounds of three months duration each as below.
sub-round period of survey
1 July-September, 1999
2 October- December, 1999
3 January-March, 2000
4 April-June, 2000
Equal number of sample fsu's were allotted for survey in each of these four sub-rounds. Each fsu was surveyed during the sub-round period to which it was allotted. Within a particular sub-round, efforts were made to spread out the field work of various fsu's uniformly over different weeks/months to the extent possible..Fifty per cent of the sample fsu's of each sub-round were be revisitd again (only for the central sample) in the subsequent sub-round and collected employment-unemployment details from the sample households who were visited during the previous sub-round. In such cases efforts were made to revisit the fsu just after 3 months.
Sample survey data [ssd]
Randomly selected households based on sampling procedure and members of the household
V1.0; Re-organised anonymised dataset for public distribution.
The NSSO surveys on employment and unemployment aim to measure the extent of ‘employment’ and ‘unemployment’ in quantitative terms disaggregated by various household and population characteristics . The persons surveyed are classified in to various activity categories on the basis of the activities pursue d by them during certain specified reference periods. Three reference periods are used in thes e surveys. These are (i) one year (ii) one week and (iii) each day of the week. Based on these th ree periods three different measures are arrived at. These are termed as usual status, current we ekly status ,and the current daily status .In the present survey, apart from the collection of data on employment and unemployment efforts were also made to collect data on the activity profiles of children. This is hoped to make available useful information relating to child labour and its causes. Another new dimension added to the present survey was in the probing questions to the unemployed regarding their educational background, past employment, nature of efforts made and sectors in which employment is sought. The probing questions on the employed to understand the extent of under utilisation of labour time was further expanded to acquire more specific information from the employed. There were also some questions on the qualitative aspects of employment like occupational changes, availability of trade unions, nature of employer etc.
Summary description of the schedule 10:
Schedule 10 on employment-unemployment for this round consisted of 16 blocks.
Blocks 0, 1 and 2 were similar to the ones used in usual NSS rounds. These were used to record identification of sample households and particulars of field operations.
The last two blocks, viz., Blocks 10 & 11, were again the usual blocks to record the remarks of investigator and comments by supervisory officer, respectively.
Block 3 used for recording the household characteristics like household size, religion, social group, land possessed and cultivated, monthly per capita consumer expenditure, etc.,
Block 3.1 was meant for recording particulars of indebtedness of rural labour households.
Block 4 was used for recording the demographic and migration particulars of all the household members.
In Block 5.1, particulars of principal usual activity of all the household members and the details of the enterprises for the usual status workers in the non-agriculture sector were recorded.
Similarly, the particulars of two major subsidiary economic activities of the household members and the details of the enterprises in which they were working recorded in Block 5.2.
The daily time disposition for the previous seven days along with the corresponding activity particulars were recorded for each of the household members in Block 5.3. Besides this, the CWS was derived from the daily time disposition data and recorded in this block.As in the past, wage and salary earnings and mode of payment will also be collected for the workers in this block.
Block 6 was used to record the responses to the probing questions to the persons who were unemployed on all the seven days of the reference week. They were identified on the basis of duration of unemployment during the reference week recorded in Block 5.3.
Blocks 7.1 and 7.2 contains the probing questions which were related to the under-utilisation of labour time and labour mobility, respectively.
For the females classified as engaged in 'domestic duties' as per their usual principal status, some follow-up questions were framed and listed in Block 8 with a view to collecting some additional information which might explain as to whether their usual attachment to domestic duties was voluntary or involuntary and also throw light on their participation in some specified activities for family gain.
A worksheet to obtain the household monthly total expenditure provided in Block 9
Some important points on Schedule 10.1
The following points may be kept in mind while collecting data for Schedule 10.1:
This schedule had 9 blocks including the usual blocks 0, 1, 2, 10 and 11. The other blocks were blocks 4, 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3.
All the references i.e., block number, column/item number were same as in Schedule 10. The concepts, definitions and procedures of data collection were, therefore, same as for Schedule 10.
Blocks 0 and 1 always filled in and item 12, block 1 always 2. During the second visit, a household was substituted if it does not cooperate and refuses to provide information. In case the household was substituted at the time of revisit, i.e., item 18, block 1 will be 2, only blocks 0 and 1 were filled and the top page of schedule 10.1 was torn off and attached to schedule 10 canvassed for the substituted household.
There may be a situation when the sample household has shifted out of the village / block or cease to exit at the time of revisit to the household and hence cannot be located within the FSU. In such a situation, blocks 0 and 1 only were filled in for the household and code 3 (not found) was recorded against item 18 of block 1. However, if the household has changed its location within the FSU, then that household was surveyed at the present location.
In the case of a split in the sample household after the first visit, the part found in the previous location was surveyed and the other part, if it remains in the FSU, was treated as new household. This new household formed a part of the second stage stratum 9. If both the parts were within the FSU but none of them was found in the previous location, then the household having the senior most member of the erstwhile household was surveyed. If again only one part of the household remains within the FSU, then that was located and surveyed.
Schedule 10 was always be canvassed for the households belonging to second-stage stratum 9.
Information for the schedule was mostly collected by the same investigator and from the same informant of the household as was done during the first visit to the household.
Item 19, block 1 was filled in after filling up of block 4. In the case where the household was substituted, it wass left blank.
For part A (erstwhile members) of block 4, serial number (col.1), name (col.2) and age (col. 5) were copied from block 4 of schedule 10 canvassed during the first visit to the household.
For part A of block 4, columns 13, 14 and 20 were not filled in.
Column 21 of block 4 was invariably filled in for all persons listed in part A and part B.
For part B of block 4, all the columns (1 to 21) were filled in.
Blocks 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3 were filled in afresh for all the present members of the household irrespective of whether they were listed in part A or B of block 4.
| Topic | Vocabulary | URI |
|---|---|---|
| Labor Markets | World Bank | http://www.surveynetwork.org/toolkit |
The survey covered the whole of the Indian Union excepting (i) Ladakh & Kargil districts of Jammu & Kashmir, (ii) interior villages of Nagaland situated beyond 5 kms. of a bus route & (iii) villages of Andaman & Nicobar Islands remaining inaccessible throughout the year. All the villages of the country, uninhabited according to 1991 census, were also left out of the survey coverage of the NSS 55th round.
The survey used the interview method of data collection from a sample of randomly selected households and members of the household
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| National Sample Survey Office | M/o Statistcs and Programme Implementation(MOSPI),Government of India (GOI) |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Survey Design Reearch Division | National Sample Survey Office | Questionnaire Desgn, Sampling methodology,Survey Reports |
| Field Operations Division | National Sample Survey Office | Field Work |
| Data Processing Division | National Sample Survey Office | Data Processing |
| Computer Centre | M/o Statistcs and Programme Implementation(MOSPI),Government of India (GOI) | Data Dissemination |
| Name | Abbreviation |
|---|---|
| M/o Statistics & Programme Implementation, GOI | MOSPI |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Governing council and Working Group | GOI | Finalisation of survey study and Questionnaire |
One salient feature of the 55th round is that the rotation sampling scheme has been adopted for the first time in the NSS (central sample only) for the purpose of collection of employment-unemployment data. Under this scheme, 50 per cent of the sample first stage units (fsu's) of each sub-round will be revisited in the subsequent sub-round. From each such fsu, sample households visited in the previous sub-round for collecting data on employment-unemployment will be revisited in the subsequent sub-round for collecting employment-unemployment details. In addition, for the purpose of collecting employment-unemployment data, a thin sample of 2 households will be selected during the revisit from the frame of newly formed households in the fsu. It may be noted that the above scheme of rotation sampling scheme for collecting employment-unemployment data will be followed only for the fsu's belonging to the central sample. For state samples, the fsu's are to be visited only once as they appear in the sample list for canvassing various schedules in the selected households/enterprises.
Sampling frame for first stage units:
The frame used for selection of first stage units in the rural sector was the 1991 census list of villages for all the four sub-rounds for 8 states/u.t.s viz. Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Chandigarh. However for Agra district of U.P. and the three districts, viz.Durg, Sagar, and Morena of M.P., samples were drawn using 1981 census list of villages. For Jammu & Kashmir samples for all the 4 sub-rounds were drawn using the 1981 census list as the 1991 census was not conducted in the st ate. For the remaining 23 states/u.t.s, the frame was 1991 census list for sub-rounds 2 to 4 and 1981 census list for sub-round 1 as the 1991 census list was not available for use at the time of drawing the samples.
As usual, for Nagaland the list of villages within 5 kms. of the bus route and for Andaman and Nicobar Islands the list of accessible villages constituted the frame. In the case of urban sector the frame consisted of the UFS blocks and, for some newly declared towns where these were not available, the 1991 census enumeration blocks were used.
Region formation and stratification:
States were divided into regions by grouping contiguous districts similar in respect of population density and cropping pattern. In rural sector each district was treated a separate stratum if the population was below 2 million and where it exceeded 2 million, it was split into two or more strata. This cut off point of population was taken as 1.8 million ( in place of 2 million ) for the purpose of stratification for districts for which the 1981 census frame wa s used. In the urban sector, strata were formed, within each NSS region on the basis of population size class of towns. However for towns with population of 4 lakhs or more the urban blocks were divided into two classes viz. one consisting of blocks inhabited by affluent section of the population and the other consisting of the remaining blocks.
Selection of first stage units :
Selection of sample villages was done circular systematically with probability proportional to population and sample blocks circular system-atically with equal probability. Both the sample villages and the sample blocks were selected in the form of two or more independent sub-samples. In Arunachal Pradesh the procedure of cluster sampling has been followed. Further large villages/blocks having present population of 1200 or more were divided into a suitable number of hamlet- groups/ sub-blocks having equal population content. Two hamlet- groups were selected from the
larger villages while one sub-block was selected in urban sector for larger blocks.
Selection of households :
While listing the households in the selected villages, certain relatively affluent households were identified and considered as second stage stratum 1 and the rest as second stage stratum 2.
A total of 10 households were surveyed from the selected village/hamlet-groups, 2 from the fi rst category and remaining from the second.
Further in the second stage stratum-2, the households were arranged according to the means of livelihood. The means of livelihood were identified on the basis of the major source of income as i) self-employed in non-agricultu re, ii) rural labour and iii) others. The land possessed by the households was also ascertained and the frame for selection was arranged on the basis of this information.
The households were selected circular systematically from both the second stage strata.
In the urban blocks a different method was used for arranging the households for selection. This involved the identification means of livelihood of households as any one of a) self-employed, b)regular salaried/wage earnings, c) casual labour, d) others. Further the average household monthly per capita consumer expenditure (mpce) was also ascertained. All households with MPCE of (i) Rs. 1200/- or more (in towns with population less than 10 lakhs or (ii) Rs. 1500/- or more (in towns with population 10 lakh or more) formed second-stage stratum 1 and the rest, second-stage stratum 2.The households of second-stage stratum 2 were arranged according to means of livelihood class and MPCE ranges before selection of sample households. A total of 10 households were selected from each sample block as follows
(i) For affluent strata/classes : 4 households from second- stage stratum 1 and 6 households from second-stage stratum 2
(ii) For other strata/classes : 2 households from second-stage stratum 1 and 8 from second-stage stratum 2.
Households were then selected circular systematically w ith a random start.
Shortfall in the required number of household in any second-stage st ratum was made up by ncreasing the quota for the other second stage stratum.
A total of 7284 sample villages (Rural) and 4792 sample blocks (Urban) were allotted in central sample. 6983 sample villages and 470 sample blocks were successfullly surveyed covering 356351 persons in sample villages and 208389 persons in sample blocks.
There was no deviation from the original sampling design
Three different weightsare provided in each record of filess in the data set. Deatils are as follows:-
Summary description of the schedule :
The schedule 10 on employment-unemployment for NSS50th round consisted of 13 blocks as given below.
Blocks 0, 1 and 2 - identification of sample households and particulars of field operations.
Block 3 - Household Characteristics.
Block 3.1 - Indebtedness of rural Labour Households as on date of survey
Block 4 - Demographic and migration particulars of household members.
Block 5.1: Usual principal activity particulars of household members.
Block 5.2: Usual subsidiary economic activity particulars of household members
Block 5.3: Time disposition during the week
Block 6: Follow-up questions for persons unemployed on all the seven days of the week
Block 7.1: Follow-up questions on availability of work to persons working in the usual principal or subsidiary status (activity - I) (i.e. those with codes 11-51 either in col. 3 of bl. 5.1 or bl. 5.2 under subsidiary activity status - I)
Block 7.2: Follow-up questions on change of nature of work and/or establishment to persons working in the usual principal or subsidiary status (activity - I) (i.e. with codes 11-51 in col. 3 of bl. 5.1 or 5.2)
Block 8: Follow-up questions for females (code 2 in col. 4, bl. 4) with principal usual activity status codes 92 or 93 (in col. 3 of bl. 5.1)
Block 9: Worksheet for recording household consumer expenditure:
Blocks 10 & 11 - used for recording the remarks of the investigator and comments of supervisory officers respectively.
The the linkage between different blocks are shown in the block diagram given below.
Block 0.1 &2
Block 3 ---> Block 3.1---> Block 9
Block 4----> Block 5.1----->Block 5.2---> Block 5.3---> Block 6
V
l-> Block 7.1
l-> Block 7.2
l-> Block 8
Block 10 & 11
RE-VISIT Schedule 10.1
This schedule has 9 blocks including the usual blocks 0, 1, 2, 10 and 11.
The other blocks are blocks 4, 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3 which are similar to schedule 10.
| Start | End | Cycle |
|---|---|---|
| 1999-07-01 | 1999-09-30 | Sub-round-1 |
| 1999-10-01 | 1999-12-31 | Sub-round-2 |
| 2000-01-01 | 2000-03-31 | Sub-round-3 |
| 2000-04-01 | 2000-06-30 | Sub-round-4 |
| Name | Affiliation | Abbreviation |
|---|---|---|
| Field Operations Division of Naional Sample Survey Office | Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation | NSSO(FOD) |
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Centre | M/O Statistics and Programme Implementation | http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/site/home.aspx | nssodata@gmail.com |
Validated unit level data relating to various survey rounds are available on CD-ROMS which can be obtained from the Deputy Director General, Computer Centre, M/O Statistics and PI, East Block No. 10 R.K. Puram, New Delhi-110066 by remitting the price along with packaging and postal charges as well as giving an undertaking duly signed in a specified format.The amount is to be remitted by way of demand draft drawn in favour of Pay & Accounts Officer, Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation, payable at New Delhi.
The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
| Name | Affiliation | URL |
|---|---|---|
| ADG, SDRD , NSSO | M/O Statistics & PI, G/O India | http://mospi.gov.in/ |
| DDG, Computer Centre | Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation | http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/site/home.aspx |
DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-55Rnd-Sch10-and-10dot1-1999-2000
| Name | Abbreviation | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Centre | MOSPI, CC | M/O Statistics & Programme Implementation | Documentation of the study |
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