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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Reason for quitting the job (Reason_for_quitting_the_job)
File: Block_6_level_07

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 408
Invalid: 0

Definition

Block 6: Follow-up questions for persons unemployed on all the seven days of the week: This block is meant for collecting information on persons who are found to be unemployed on all the seven days of the week preceding the date of survey, i.e., for those persons with entry 1 in column (23) of block 5.3. Information to be recorded in this block broadly includes their present spell of unemployment and particulars of last employment for those who are unemployed on all the 7 days of the week but were ever employed

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

For code 1 in col. 4( i.e if ever employed during the week ) , particulars of last employment : for code 2 in col.9 ( i.e in case of quit earlier job ) , reason for quitting job (code)

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	NA / NR	0	0.0%
1	Work was not remunerative enough	141	34.6%
2	Unpleasant environment	28	6.9%
3	Employer harsh	37	9.1%
4	Health hazard	28	6.9%
5	To avail benefits of voluntary retirement	6	1.5%
9	Others	168	41.2%

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 those persons who have quit their job (i.e., code 2 in column 9) the reason for quitting the job will be recorded as follows:

work was not remunerative enough ........... 1
unpleasant environment.............................. 2
employer harsh........................................... 3
health hazard.............................................. 4
to avail benefits of voluntary retirement..... 5
others............................................................ 9
Codes are self-explanatory. Unpleasant environment will be excluding the factor mentioned for codes 3 & 4. In case more than one code is applicable, the code, which appears first in the code list will be given.