India - Informal Non-Agricultural Enterprises Survey, July 1999 - June 2000, NSS 55th Round

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-55Rnd-Sch2-1999-2000

Year

1999 - 2000

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)

Enterprises Surveys

Created on

Jan 17, 2018

Last modified

Mar 25, 2019

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problem-1 (B2_q15_c1)
File: Block1-2-Operational-Characteristics-enterprises-records

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 2

Valid cases: 197626
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Problems faced by the enterprise

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
00	NR	66	0.0%
01	no specific problem	62326	31.5%
02	shortage of capital	70464	35.7%
03	lack of lighting facilities	1930	1.0%
04	problem of power-cut	2536	1.3%
05	lack of marketing / other infrastructural facilities	16214	8.2%
06	local problems	15444	7.8%
07	competition from larger units	13527	6.8%
08	non-availability of labour	695	0.4%
09	labour problems	762	0.4%
10	raw materials/fuel not available or exorbitant price	2228	1.1%
11	non- recovery of service charges / fees/credit	6454	3.3%
19	others (specify in the space provided)	4560	2.3%
99	Invalid	420	0.2%

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

Different types of problems faced by the informal enterprises in their day-to-day operation will be recorded against this item in terms of codes. In case the problems faced by the enterprises are a combination of those mentioned below, the top three major problems may be considered for recording the codes. The cell should be divided into three boxes and codes should be written in descending order of seriousness from left to right. If there are less than three problems, these can be noted starting from the left most box. For code 19, the problem may be mentioned in the space provided to the right of the item. “Labour problem” means problem between management and labourers. Non availability of labourer should not be given code 09.