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Employment and Unemployment, July 2011- June 2012
NSS 68th Round

India, 2011 - 2012
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DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-68-10-2013
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National Sample Survey Office
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Employment and Unemployment
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Approximate no. of months without work (No_of_Months_Without_Work)

Data file: Block_6_Follow-up questions on availability for work, existence of union or association and nature of employment for persons working in the usual principal or subsidiary status

Overview

Valid: 128790
Invalid: 43491
Minimum: 0
Maximum: 12
Mean: 0.788
Standard deviation: 1.642
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 52
End: 53
Width: 2
Range: 0 - 12
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext
Approximate no. of months without work: the number of months a person was without work 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.
Literal question
approxi-mate
no. of months without work (months)
Categories
Value Category Cases
0 96509
74.9%
1 3670
2.8%
2 11086
8.6%
3 7447
5.8%
4 5014
3.9%
5 1703
1.3%
6 1506
1.2%
7 473
0.4%
8 626
0.5%
9 352
0.3%
10 316
0.2%
11 47
0%
12 41
0%
Sysmiss 43491
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
Approximate no. of months without work: 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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