India - Employment and Unemployment Survey: NSS 43rd Round : July 1987 - June 1988, Fourth Quinquennial Survey

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-43Rnd-Sch10-1987-88

Year

1987 - 1988

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 15, 2018

Last modified

Mar 26, 2019

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Principal usual activity status (PUAS)code (B7_q2)
File: Block-7-Persons- usual-activity-statuscode-11to94-Records

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 2

Valid cases: 498362
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Principal usual activity status (PUAS)code

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
11	Worked in Household Enterprises (Self-Employed).	105812	21.2%
21	Worked as Helper in Household Enterprises	29112	5.8%
31	Worked as Regular Salaried/Wage Employee	45527	9.1%
41	Worked as Casual Wage Labour in Public Work	2115	0.4%
51	Worked as Casual Wage Labour in Other Types Of Work	53676	10.8%
81	Sought Work	10330	2.1%
82	Did Not Seek but Available For Work	0	0.0%
91	Attended Educational Institution	122168	24.5%
92	Attended Domestic Duties Only	80857	16.2%
93	Attended Domestic Duties & also Engaged Work For Household Use	45654	9.2%
94	Renters, Pensioners, Remittance Recipients, Etc.	3111	0.6%

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 whole serial number is recorded against item 1, his or her usual activity 'status' and 'industry division' codes (as recorded in columns (2) and (3) respectively of block (6) will be entered against item 2 as a three digited code of which the unit place will indicate the industry division code and the tenth and hundredth places will indicate the status code.