India - Employment and Unemployment Survey, July 1993 - June 1994, NSS 50th Round

India Employment and Unemployment Survey, July 1993 - June 1994

NSS 50th Round

Socio-Economic/Household Survey The NSSO carried out the first quinquennial survey on employment - unemployment in the 27th round (September 1972 - October 1973). This first survey made a marked departure from the earlier employment surveys of NSSO in procedure and content. The concepts and procedure followed in this survey were primarily based on the recommendations of the 'Expert Committee on Unemployment Estimates' (1970). since then, the three successive quinquennial surveys conducted in 32nd (July 1977 - June 1978), 38th (January - December 1983) and 43rd (July 1987 - June 1988) rounds have more or less followed an identical approach in the measurement of employment and unemployment. Continuing in this series this was the fifth quinquennial survey conducted as 50th round from July 1993-June 1994.

ID Number DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-50Rnd-Sch10-1993-94

The NSSO surveys on employment and unemployment aim to measure the extent of ‘employment’ and ‘unemployment’ in quantitative terms disaggregated by various household and population characteristics . The persons surveyed are classified in to various activity categories on the basis of the activities pursue d by them during certain specified reference periods. Three reference periods are used in thes e surveys. These are (i) one year (ii) one week and (iii) each day of the week. Based on these th ree periods three different measures are arrived at. These are termed as usual status, current we ekly status ,and the current daily status .In the present survey, apart from the collection of data on employment and unemployment efforts were also made to collect data on the activity profiles of children. This is hoped to make available useful information relating to child labour and its causes. Another new dimension added to the present survey was in the probing questions to the unemployed regarding their educational background, past employment, nature of efforts made and sectors in which employment is sought. The probing questions on the employed to understand the extent of under utilisation of labour time was further expanded to acquire more specific information from the employed. There were also some questions on the qualitative aspects of employment like occupational changes, availability of trade unions, nature of employer etc.

The data for this survey was collected in the NSS Schedule 10 used for employment surveys. For this round, the schedule had 8 core blocks out of 13 blocks.

Blocks 0, 1 and 2 - were similar to the ones used in usual NSS rounds. These were used to record identification of sample households and particulars of field operations.

Block-3: Household characteristics like, household size, principal industry-occupation, social group, land possessed and cultivated, use of hired labour, monthl y per capita expenditure etc. were recorded in ths block.

Block-4: In this Block the detailed demographic particulars including age, sex, educational level school attendan ce, principal and subsidiary statuses, the industry, occupation of the employed, distance to place of work etc. were re corded.

Block-5: This was used to record the daily time disposition. Apart form recording the different activities from among the various status codes explained in the earlier part of this section, the i ndustry and type of ‘operation’ for rural areas were also recorded. For a day utmost two activity statuses could be recorded, an activity status getting an intensity of ‘half or full’ depending on the time spent on it. No limits on the number of activities that could be reported in a week was specified. The current weekly status of the person derived form the various daily activity statuses followed in the week and the corresponding industry-occupation was also recorded in this block. Besi des the above, the wage and salary earnings were also entered in this block.

Block-6: Block 6 was used to record the answers to certain probing questions to the unemployed. The unemployed for this purpose were those who had not worked on any day of the reference week. These probing questions included among other things the academic performance, particulars of work sought, details of past employment, reasons for unemployment, length of spell of unemployment, type of efforts made etc.

Block-7 : Further probing questions on the usually employed on the qualitative aspects of employment were made in Block 7. These included occupational mobility, availability for additional work and reasons, extent of under utilisation of labour time, membership of trade unions, nature of employer, permanency of employment etc..

Block-8: A major innovation in this survey was the attempt to specifically collect information on the activity profiles of children. In order to build up the profile, the school attendance status of the hildren,reason for non-attendance, extent of participation in household chores, information on the type of work done and the industry in which worked, reason for working, economic benefits derived by the household from such work , its effect on studies etc. were ascertained for all children aged in the 5-14 years age group in the sample household. All this information was reco rded in Block 8.

Block-9: In Block 9, the follow up questions were asked to or about those who reportedly were engaged in domestic duties. This block was canvassed as in th e previous surveys .

Block-10: Block 10 was canvassed as part of the rural labour enquiry being undertaken for the Labour Bureau by the NSSO and which is integrated with the employment survey.

Blocks 11 & 12: used for recording the remarks of the investigator and comments of supervisory officers respectively.

Topic	Vocabulary	URI
Labor Markets	World Bank	http://www.surveynetwork.org/toolkit

Employment, Unemployment, Indebtedness of rural labour, Usual principal activity, Usual subsidiary activity, Time disposition during the week, Unemloyed persons on all the 7 days of the week, Change of nature of work, Change of establishment The fifth quinquennial survey was conducted during the 50th round survey operations from July 1993 to June, 1994. Generally the NSSO surveys cover the entire country with the exception of certain interior areas of Nagala nd and the Andaman & Nicobar Islands. However in this round besides the above, in the state of Jammu & Kashmir out of the 12 Districts, only three Districts could be surveyed. These Districts viz. Jammu, Kathua and Udhampur are however included in the all India estimates..

The survey used the interview method of data collection from a sample of randomly selected households and members of the household

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation	Role
Computer Centre	MOSPI, CC	M/O Statistics & Programme Implementation	Documentation of the study

2012-02-29 Version 1.0 (Feb 2012)

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-50Rnd-Sch10-1993-94