India - Employment and Unemployment, July 2004 - June 2005, NSS 61st Round

Start	End	Cycle
2004-07-01	2005-06-30	N/A

Face-to-face [f2f]
In the present round, Schedule 10 on employment-unemployment was consisting of 16 blocks. The first three blocks, viz. Blocks 0, 1 and 2, were used to record identification of sample households and particulars of field operations, as is the common practice in usual NSS rounds. Similarly, the last two blocks, viz., Blocks 10 & 11, were again the usual blocks to record the remarks of investigator and comments by supervisory officer(s), respectively. Block 3 was for recording the household characteristics like household size, religion, social group, land possessed and cultivated, monthly per capita consumer expenditure, etc., and Block 3.1 for recording particulars of indebtedness of rural labour households. Block 4 was used for recording the demographic particulars and attendance in educational institutions of all the household members. Particulars of vocational training receiving/received by the household members was collected in block 4. In Block 5.1, particulars of usual principal activity of all the household members was recorded along with some particulars of the enterprises in which the usual status workers (excluding those in crop and plantation activities) were engaged. Information on informal employment was also collected in block 5.1. Similarly, the particulars of one subsidiary economic activity of the household members along with some particulars of the enterprises and informal employment in their subsidiary activity was recorded in Block 5.2. The daily time disposition for the seven days preceding the date of survey along with the corresponding activity particulars was recorded for each household member in Block 5.3. Besides this, the CWS will be derived from the daily time disposition data and will be recorded in this block. As in the past, wage and salary earnings and mode of payment was also collected for regular salaried/wage employee and for the casual labours 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. Blocks 7.1 and 7.2 contains the probing questions which are related to the under-utilisation of labour time and labour mobility, respectively. For the members of the household classified as engaged in 'domestic duties' as per their usual principal status, some follow-up questions had been 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 to throw light on their participation in some specified activities for family gain. A worksheet to obtain the total monthly household consumer expenditure had been provided in Block 9.

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation
National Sample Survey Office	NSSO	Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation