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Employment and Unemployment Survey: NSS 43rd Round : July 1987 - June 1988
Fourth Quinquennial Survey

India, 1987 - 1988
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DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-43Rnd-Sch10-1987-88
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National Sample Survey Office
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Employment and Unemployment
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seeking extra work (B7_q8)

Data file: Block-7-Persons- usual-activity-statuscode-11to94-Records

Overview

Valid: 490010
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: character

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Were you seeking or available for work/additional work/ alternative work during last 365 days
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Yes : forwork. 30820
6.3%
2 Yes :additional work. 20356
4.2%
3 Yes : alternative work 6974
1.4%
4 No 431860
88.1%
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
This particular question will be put to all the person with usual activity status code 11-94. It may be noted that the persons for whom this set of follow-up questions are meant can broadly be divided into two groups - (i ) those who had some work during the reference year (i.e., persons with usual status codes 11-51 and 81-94 with some usual subsidiary gainful activity) and (ii) those who had no wok during the reference year (i.e., persons with usual activity status codes 81-94 with no usual subsidiary gainful activity). It is expected that the first group, if at all willing, will normally opt for 'additional work or 'alternative work' to this group, therefore, the question should be put in such a way as to reflect both the possibilities. To the second group, naturally, the question 'whether they were seeking or available for work' will be asked. Depending on the answer obtained, the entry will be made against this item interims of the code numbers 1, 2, 3, or 4. The codes are :
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