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

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-61-12-2011

Year

2004 - 2005

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office - NSSO

Sponsor(s)

Govt. of India - -
Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation - -

Collection(s)

Employment and Unemployment

Created on

Jan 18, 2018

Last modified

Mar 25, 2019

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Duration-spell of unemployment (Duration_spell_of_unemployment)
File: Block_6_level_07

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 11232
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Pre question

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)

Literal question

Duration of present
spell of unemployment (code)

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	NR	0	0.0%
1	only 1 week	244	2.2%
2	More than 1 week to 2 weeks	755	6.7%
3	More than 2 weeks to 1 month	824	7.3%
4	More than 1 month to 2 months	766	6.8%
5	More than 2 months to 3 months	539	4.8%
6	More than 3 months to 6 months	903	8.0%
7	More than 6 months to 12 months	1168	10.4%
8	More than 12 months	6033	53.7%

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

The spell of unemployment means the continuous period for which the person remains unemployed. The present spell will, therefore, refer to the period starting from the day the person became unemployed to the survey date, without any change in his/ her activity status. In the case of persons who are first entrants to the labour force, the present spell will be equal to the entire length of unemployment starting from the day such person joins the labour force, i.e., the day since when he/ she was seeking/ available for work. For those who had any previous employment, the present spell will be the period starting from the day they were seeking or available for work after loosing their last employment to the survey date. The spell will be recorded in terms of codes indicating various durations as follows:

duration code duration code

only 1 week…………………….. 1 more than 2 months to 3 months…. 5
More than 1 week to 2 weeks…… 2 more than 3 months to 6 months…. 6
More than 2 weeks to 1 month….. 3 more than 6 months to 12 months… 7
More than 1 month to 2 months…. 4 more than 12 months……………… 8