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) |
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Overview
Identification
DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-62nd-Sch10-2005-06 |
Version
V1.0; Re-organised anonymised dataset for public distribution. 2012-03-20
Overview
An all-India survey on the situation of employment and unemployment in India during the period July, 2005 to June, 2006 was carried out as part of the annual series in the 62nd round of the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO). In this survey, a nation-wide enquiry was conducted in a moderately large sample of households to provide estimates on various characteristics pertaining to employment and unemployment in India and some characteristics associated with them at the national and state levels. Information on various facets of employment and unemployment in India were collected through a schedule of enquiry (Schedule 10). In terms of subject coverage for employment and unemployment (Schedule 10), this survey is broadly similar to the NSS 60th round. On the request of the Planning Commission, additional information regarding the possession of different types of ‘ration cards’ by the households and the participation of the household members in the rural areas in various public works programmes were also collected. Further, to meet the requirements of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, information on current attendance in educational institutions by persons of age below 30 years and the type of educational institutions being attended by the persons currently attending educational institutions was also collected. Instead of collecting detailed particulars on formal vocational training, as was done in NSS 60th round, it was enquired from the household members, of age 15 – 29 years, whether they received or receiving‘formal’ or ‘non-formal’ vocational training. Besides, information was collected on whether the household members ( of age 15 – 29 years) were receiving formal vocational training. For the purpose of collection of information on industry of activity, National Industrial Classification (NIC), 2004 was used in this survey.
Sample survey data [ssd]
Randomly selected households based on sampling procedure and members of the household
Scope
As in the quinquennial surveys, in the present survey too, NSSO collected data on some characteristics, based on which, estimates of employment and unemployment, measured in terms of three basic approaches, viz., usual status, current weekly status and current daily status can be obtained. The reference period for these approaches differ - it being 365 days preceding the date of survey for ‘usual status’, 7 days preceding the date of survey for ‘current weekly status’ and each day of the 7 days preceding the date of survey for ‘current daily status’.
Data were collected on the activity status of all persons, i.e. for workers, for those seeking or available for work and also for those remaining out of labour force. A worker could be self-employed or enjoy regular salaries/wages or be employed on casual wage basis. Data on this aspect, along with the industry of work of the worker and his/her occupation, were collected during this survey. In order to reveal the multi-dimensional features of the employment-unemployment situation in India, information on several correlates pertaining to it were also gathered. Information on participation of the household members of age 15 years and above, in the rural areas, in public works programmes, was additionally collected. To study the employment and unemployment in proper perspective, information on current attendance in educational institutions for persons of age below 30 years was also collected. To have an idea about the skill level of the population, information on, whether the household member of age 15 –29 years, received ‘formal’ or ‘non-formal’ vocational training and whether they were receiving formal vocational training were collected.
In this round, Schedule 10 on employment-unemployment consisted of 9 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 7 & 8, were again the usual blocks to record the remarks of investigator and comments by supervisory officer(s), respectively. Of the remaining 4 blocks,
Block 3 was for recording the household characteristics like household size, household industry, occupation, religion, social group, household type, land possessed, possession of ration card, and monthly household consumer expenditure, etc.
Block 4 was for recording the demographic particulars, current attendance in educational institutions, vocational training and some particulars relating to participation of the household members on public works.
In Block 5, usual activity particulars, both principal and subsidiary, of all the household members, were recorded.
The daily time disposition for different activities, for each of the seven days prior to the date of survey, along with the particulars of the activities, were recorded for each of the household members in Block 6. For the regular salaried/ wage employee and casual labourers, wage and salary earnings were also collected in this block. Besides, the current weekly status (cws) derived in this block from the daily time disposition data.
Topic | Vocabulary | URI |
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Labor Markets | World Bank | http://www.surveynetwork.org/toolkit |
Coverage
The survey covered the whole of the Indian Union except (i) Leh (Ladakh) and Kargil districts of Jammu & Kashmir, (ii) interior villages of Nagaland situated beyond 5 kilometres of the bus route and (iii) villages in Andaman and Nicobar Islands which remain inaccessible throughout the year. All the sample first-stage units of the districts Poonch and Rajouri of Jammu & Kashmir, became casualty and therefore, the districts Poonch and Rajouri of Jammu & Kashmir, are outside the survey coverage. . Thus, the estimates of Jammu and Kashmir and all-India estimates do not include these two districts.The survey used the interview method of data collection from a sample of randomly selected households and members of the household
Producers and Sponsors
Name | Affiliation |
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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 | Role |
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M/o Statistics & Programme Implementation, GOI | MOSPI |
Name | Affiliation | Role |
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Governing council and Working Group | GOI | Finalisation of survey study and Questionnaire |
Metadata Production
Name | Abbreviation | Affiliation | Role |
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Computer Centre | MOSPI, CC | M/O Statistics & Programme Implementation | Documentation of the study |
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