Employment and Unemployment, July 2004 - June 2005
NSS 61st Round

India, 2004 - 2005

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DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-61-12-2011

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

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Employment and Unemployment

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Vocational training (Vocational_training)

Data file: Block_4_level_03

Overview

Valid: 161124

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Start: 56

End: 56

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: character

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

For persons of age 15 to 29 years

Literal question

Whether receiving/
received
any
vocational training (code) ?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	NA / NR	0	0%
1	Yes: Receiving formal vocational training	2293	1.4%
2	Yes: Received vocational training: formal	4258	2.6%
3	Yes: Received vocational training: Non-formal: hereditary	5407	3.4%
4	Yes: Received vocational training: Others	5705	3.5%
5	Did not receive any vocational training	143461	89%

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

Information on whether the household member is receiving or has received any vocational training will be collected in this column in codes given below:

receiving formal vocational training……… 1
received vocational training:
formal……………………….. 2
non-formal: hereditary ……… 3
non-formal: others …………… 4
did not receive any vocational training ……… 5

Only those who are currently receiving 'formal vocational training' will be given code 1 and if the vocational training, which is formal, is received, i.e., if the training course is successfully completed, then code will be 2. Code 3 will be applicable for those who have received 'hereditary' non-formal vocational trainings and code 4 for those who have received 'other' non-formal vocational trainings. Persons who have failed in formal vocational training after completion of the full duration of the course will be given code 4 provided they have acquired competency through this training to employ themselves as wage salary employee or self-employed.
Columns (13) to (15) will be filled in for those who are receiving/received formal vocational training, i.e., for code 1 or 2 in column (12)

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Employment and Unemployment, July 2004 - June 2005 NSS 61st Round