India - Employment and Unemployment, July 2011- June 2012, NSS 68th Round

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-68-10-2013

Year

2011 - 2012

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office - NSSO

Sponsor(s)

Govt. of India - -
Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation - -

Collection(s)

Employment and Unemployment

Created on

Jan 18, 2018

Last modified

Feb 20, 2019

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usual subsidiary activity status (Usual_Subsidiary_Activity_Status)
File: Block_6_Follow-up questions on availability for work, existence of union or association and nature of employment for persons working in the usual principal or subsidiary status

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 2

Valid cases: 38098
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Pre question

Usual Principal activity status and usual subsidiary activity status: The usual principal activity status and usual subsidiary activity status

Literal question

usual activity status code :: Subsidiary

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
11	Worked in h.h. enterprise (self-employed): own account worker	11772	30.9%
12	Employer	672	1.8%
21	Worked as helper in h.h. enterprise (unpaid family worker)	11531	30.3%
31	Worked as regular salaried/ wage employee	573	1.5%
41	Worked as casual wage labour : in public works	6775	17.8%
51	Worked as casual wage labour : In other types of work	6775	17.8%

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

Usual Principal activity status and usual subsidiary activity status: The usual principal activity status and usual subsidiary activity status will be copied from column (3) of block 5.1 and 5.2 to columns (3) and (4), respectively, as described below.

(i) For persons having one of the codes 11-51 in column (3) of block 5.1, the entry in column (3) of block 7.1 will be same as that in column (3) of block 5.1. For these persons, the subsidiary status will also be recorded in column (4) and will be copied from column (3) of block 5.2. For persons with one of the codes 11-51 in column (3) of block 5.1 and not having any subsidiary economic activity, put a 'x' mark in col. (4).

(ii) For persons engaged in economic activity in subsidiary capacity only, their subsidiary status will be copied from column (3) of block 5.2 and recorded in column (4), and principal status will be copied from column (3) of block 5.1 and recorded in column (3).