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Employment and Unemployment Survey, July 1999 - June 2000
NSS 55th Round

India, 1999 - 2000
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DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-55Rnd-Sch10-and-10dot1-1999-2000
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National Sample Survey Office
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Employment and Unemployment
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Principal acty status (B51_q3)

Data file: Block51-sch10-Persons-usual-principal-activity-Records

Overview

Valid: 595529
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Start: 57
End: 58
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: character

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Principal usual activity status
Categories
Value Category Cases
11 Worked in hh. enterprise (self-employed) as own account worker 70375
11.8%
12 Worked in hh. enterprise (self-employed) as employer 2589
0.4%
21 Worked as helper in hh. enterprises (unpaid family worker) 40020
6.7%
31 worked as regular salaried/wage employee 41989
7.1%
41 Worked as casual wage labour : in public works 609
0.1%
51 In other types of work 54248
9.1%
81 Did not work but was seeking and/or available for work 7505
1.3%
91 Attended educational institutions 146650
24.6%
92 Attended domestic duties only 79316
13.3%
93 Attended domestic duties and engaged in free collection of goods for hh. use 37814
6.3%
94 Rentiers, pensioners, remittance recipients, etc. 5033
0.8%
95 Not able to work due to disability 3935
0.7%
96 Beggars, prostitutes 215
0%
97 Others 44009
7.4%
99 61222
10.3%
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 each of the members, the principal usual activity status will be recorded in this column. 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 working 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. Identification of this broad usual status category is explained below. 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 also not available for any economic activity (i.e. not in labour force). Thus, 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. Thus, we can obtain the broad principal usual status as one of the three viz. employed, unemployed and out of labour force.
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