Employment and Unemployment Survey, January to December, 1983
38th Round

India

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Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-38Rnd-Sch10-1983

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

Collections

Employment and Unemployment

Metadata

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Jan 15, 2018

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Reason Code (B6_q13)

Data file: Block-6-Persons-UsualActivity-records

Overview

Valid: 2520

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Start: 62

End: 62

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: character

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Reason Code

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Non-availability of work at in place of enumeration.	1428	56.7%
2	For better employment	701	27.8%
3	Required by the nature of work.	391	15.5%

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 all those reported to have stayed in places other than the place of enumeration for a continuous period of 4 weeks or more during the 365 days preceding the date of survey in connection with work (i.e. those with code 1 recorded in column (12), the reason why they had to stay in a different place will be recorded in terms of the specified codes in column (13).
It may so happen that a person might have stayed away a number of times interspersed by stay at the place of enumeration and that too in different places during the 365 days preceding the date of survey. In such cases, the reason will relate to the one for which the maximum duration of the total time spent away from the place of enumeration. The total period in completed weeks, thus spent elsewhere in connection with the work, during the 365 days preceding the date of survey, will be recorded in column (14) and the number of places where the person stayed like the manner described above will be recorded in column (15). The description of the industry-occupation combination relating to work, pursued during the major part of the total period of stay away for work, will be ascertained and recorded in column (16). The corresponding 3-digited industry group code and 3-digited occupation family code will be recorded respectively in columns (17) and (18). The type of the place where major part of the total period of stay away for work was spent, in terms of the specified codes (see also para 5,3,16), will be recorded in column (19). The names of the state and the district to which this place belongs will be entered respectively in columns (20) and (22), and the corresponding codes in columns (21) and (23).

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Employment and Unemployment Survey, January to December, 1983 38th Round