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

India, 2004 - 2005

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Reference ID

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

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

Collections

Employment and Unemployment

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Jan 18, 2018

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Reason (Reason_alternative_work)

Data file: Block_7pt1_level_08

Overview

Valid: 16573

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Start: 60

End: 60

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: character

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

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 ( i.e refer to alternative work ),
Reason (code)

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	NR	0	0%
1	Present work not remunerative enough	10515	63.4%
2	No job satisfaction	1444	8.7%
3	Lack of job security	1074	6.5%
4	Workplace too far	148	0.9%
5	Wants wage/salary job	2379	14.4%
9	Others	1013	6.1%

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 (14), 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

When more than one code is applicable, the code appearing first in the list may be given.

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