Employment and Unemployment, July 2009 - June 2010
66th Round

India, 2009 - 2010

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DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-66-10-2011

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National Sample Survey Office

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Employment and Unemployment

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(Reason_for_Quitting_the_Job)

Data file: Block_6_Follow-up questions for persons unemployed on all the 7 days of the week

Overview

Valid: 6740

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Start: 55

End: 55

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: character

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

follow-up questions for persons unemployed on all the 7 days of the week (i.e., code 1 in col. 23 of bl. 5.3)

and

for code 1 in col. 4 [ i.e code-1( for Yes) against Whether ever employed ( Yes-1, No-2 ) ? ] then

Particulars of last employment.

and

for code 2 in coi-9 [ i,e reason for break in employment(code)]

Literal question

If quit the earlier job, reason for quitting job ( code )

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	NA / NR	6507	96.5%
1	Work was not remunerative enough	97	1.4%
2	Unpleasant environment	17	0.3%
3	Employer harsh	18	0.3%
4	Health hazard	24	0.4%
5	To avail benefits of voluntary retirement	4	0.1%
9	Others	73	1.1%

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

For those persons who have quit their job (i.e., code 2 in column 9) the reason for quitting the job will be recorded as follows:
work was not remunerative enough -1, unpleasant environment -2, employer harsh -3, health hazard -4, to avail benefits of voluntary retirement -5, others -9.

Codes are self-explanatory. Unpleasant environment will be excluding the factor mentioned for codes 3 & 4. In case more than one code is applicable, the code, which appears first in the code list will be given

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Employment and Unemployment, July 2009 - June 2010 66th Round