India - Employment and Unemployment Survey, July 2005 - June 2006, NSS 62nd Round

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-62nd-Sch10-2005-06

Year

2005 - 2006

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office - M/o Statistcs and Programme Implementation(MOSPI),Government of India (GOI)

Sponsor(s)

M/o Statistics & Programme Implementation, GOI - MOSPI -

Collection(s)

Employment and Unemployment

Created on

Jan 18, 2018

Last modified

Mar 25, 2019

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Usual principal activity - Status (B5_q3)
File: Block-5-Persons-usual-activity-records

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 2

Valid cases: 377377
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Usual principal activity - Status(code)

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
11	Worked in hh. enterprise (self-employed) as own account worker	46216	12.2%
12	Worked in hh. enterprise (self-employed) as employer	1918	0.5%
21	Worked as helper (unpaid family worker) in hh. enterprises (self-employed)	22987	6.1%
31	Worked as regular salaried/wage employee	33834	9.0%
41	Worked as casual wage labour : in public works	294	0.1%
51	In other types of work	29704	7.9%
81	Did not work but was seeking and/or available for work	7134	1.9%
91	Attended educational institutions	99998	26.5%
92	Attended domestic duties only	57808	15.3%
93	Attended domestic duties and was also engaged in misc work for hh. use	22920	6.1%
94	Rentiers, pensioners, remittance recipients, etc	5316	1.4%
95	Not able to work due to disability	2802	0.7%
97	Others (including begging, prostitution, etc.	13985	3.7%
99	Invalid	32461	8.6%

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 usual principal activity status will be recorded in this column. In the first instance, the broad usual principal 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 usual principal 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 period normally available in a day for pursuing various activities need to be considered, and not the 24 hours of a day.