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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Reason for seeking/ available for alternative work (Reason_Available_for_Alt_work)
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: 1

Valid cases: 8604
Invalid: 0

Definition

Reason for seeking/ available for alternative work: For the persons who 'sought/ available' for alternative work at least for some days.

Questions and instructions

Pre question

Follow-up questions on availability for work to persons working in the usual principal or subsidiary status (i.e., those with codes 11-51 in col. 3 of bl. 5.1 or bl. 5.2)

Literal question

for codes
1 & 2 in
col. 14,
reason (code)

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Present work not remunerative enough	4510	52.4%
2	No job satisfaction	1173	13.6%
3	Lack of job security	665	7.7%
4	Workplace too far	135	1.6%
5	Wants wage/salary job	1243	14.4%
9	Others	878	10.2%

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

Reason for seeking/ available for alternative work: For the persons who 'sought/ available' for alternative work at least for some days, i.e., for persons with codes 1 and 2 in column (12), the reason for doing so will be recorded in codes as follows:

present work not remunerative enough ...……. 1
no job satisfaction ....................................….... 2
lack of job security ..................................…… 3
work place too far ...................................….... 4
wants wage/salary job ............................….... 5
others ......................................................….... 9