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

Columns (9) & (10) will be used to record the particulars of current attendance in educational institution for persons of age below 30 years. Column (9) will be used to record 'status of current attendance'. Column (10) will be used to record 'type of institution' for those who are currently attending educational institution, i.e., with entry 21-40 in column (9). Procedure for recording the particulars in these columns is explained in the subsequent paragraphs.

Column (9): Status of current attendance. It will be first ascertained if the person is currently attending any educational institutions (government or private) or not. Persons who are registered for any regular correspondence courses or distance education courses for a stipulated period at the end of which, are allowed to appear in the examination for the course, will also be considered as 'currently attending'. Persons who are awaiting results will be considered as 'currently attending' and the appropriate code for the level for which they have appeared in the examinations will be recorded. Persons who are not currently attending any educational institutions, reason for not attending will be ascertained and will be given any of the codes 01 to 05 if they have never attended and 11 to 15, if they ever attended but currently not attending. For those who are found 'currently attending', the course of study pursued by them will be further ascertained and codes will be assigned depending on the course of study pursued by them. For persons attending more than one courses, the one which is of full time will be considered for recording current attendance, in case only one of the courses is full time. In case more than one of the courses are full time, the one, which is of higher level will be considered for current attendance. If the full time courses are of same level, the one with longer duration will be considered. If the person is pursuing only part time courses, the course to be considered for current attendance will be determined in the similar way as is done for full time course.
The code structure for status of current attendance is as follows:

status of current attendance code status of current attendance code

currently not attending

never attended: ever attended but currently not attending:
school too far………………………… 01 school too far………………………. 11
to supplement hh. income ....………… 02 to supplement hh. income………….. 12
education not considered necessary….. 03 education not considered necessary... 13
to attend domestic chores…………….. 04 to attend domestic chores………….. 14
others ……… ..........................……… 05 others…..………………………….. 15
currently attending

EGS/NFEC/AEC ……………………… 21 diploma or certificate (below graduate level) in:
TLC ......................…………………….. 22 agriculture………………………. 31
pre-primary (nursery/Kinder garten, etc.).. 23 engineering/technology ………… 32
primary (class I to IV/V)....................… 24 medicine ……………………….. 33
middle...............................................….. 25 crafts …………………………… 34
secondary and higher secondary……… 26 other subjects………………….. 35
graduate and above in: diploma or certificate (graduate and above level) in:
agriculture……………………… 27 agriculture ……………………. 36
engineering/technology ……….. 28 engineering/technology ………. 37
medicine ……………………….. 29 medicine ……………………… 38
other subjects ……………………. 30 crafts ..………………………… 39
other subjects…………………. 40