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

India, 2004 - 2005

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

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National Sample Survey Office

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Employment and Unemployment

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No. of months without work (No_of_months_without_work)

Data file: Block_7pt1_level_08

Overview

Valid: 184642

Invalid: 60203

Minimum: 0.0

Maximum: 12.0

Mean: 1.1563024663944281

Standard deviation: 1.9956097942310425

Type: Discrete

Width: 2

Format: Numeric

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

Approximate no. of months without work (months )

Categories

Value	Cases
0	123864	67.1%
1	4310	2.3%
2	16563	9%
3	15952	8.6%
4	11520	6.2%
5	4185	2.3%
6	3872	2.1%
7	1059	0.6%
8	1511	0.8%
9	545	0.3%
10	701	0.4%
11	163	0.1%
12	397	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

In column (7), the number of months a person was without work will be recorded. The months without work need not be continuous. It is quite possible that a person was without any work for a couple of months, then in employment for some months and again out of work for a couple of months. The 'approximate number of months without work' will include the months in which a person was unemployed and also the months in which he/she was out of labour force, i.e., neither seeking/ available for work. Part of month will be rounded off to the nearest month. Hence, for a month if the period without work is reported to be less than 30 days but 15 days or more, it should be recorded as 1 month without work. Situation is to be assessed for all the months separately to get number of months without work during the reference year. Note that some of those, who have reported to have worked more or less regularly during the reference year, i.e., code 1 in column (6), may be found to be without work for some months, after deep probing. For such persons also, number of months without work will be recorded in column (7) and entry in col. (6) should not be changed.

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