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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Usual principal activity-Status (Usual_principal_activity_status)
File: Block_7pt1_level_08

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 2

Valid cases: 244845
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Pre question

Follow-up questions on availability for work to persons working in the usual principal or subsidiary status (i.e., those with codes 11-51 in col. 3 of bl. 5.1 or bl. 5.2)

Literal question

Usual activity status code : principal (as in col. 3, bl.5.1)

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
11	Worked in h.h. enterprise (self-employed): own account worker	80597	32.9%
12	Employer	3468	1.4%
21	Worked as helper in h.h. enterprise (unpaid family worker)	46960	19.2%
31	Worked as regular salaried/ wage employee	44016	18.0%
41	Worked as casual wage labour : in public works	617	0.3%
51	Worked as casual wage labour : In other types of work	45648	18.6%
81	Did not work but was seeking and/or available for work	1527	0.6%
91	Attended educational institution	2791	1.1%
92	Attended domestic duties only	5930	2.4%
93	Attended domestic duties and was also engaged in free collection of goods (vegetables, roots, firewood, cattle feed, etc.), sewing, tailoring, weaving, etc. for household use	12542	5.1%
94	Rentiers, pensioners , remittance recipients, etc.	394	0.2%
95	Not able to work due to disability	46	0.0%
97	Others (including begging, prostitution, etc.)	309	0.1%

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

The usual principal activity status and usual subsidiary activity status will be copied from column (3) of block 5.1 and 5.2 to columns (3) and (4), respectively, as described below.

(i) For persons having one of the codes 11-51 in column (3) of block 5.1, the entry in column (3) of block 7.1 will be same as that in column (3) of block 5.1. For these persons, the subsidiary status will also be recorded in column (4) and will be copied from column (3) of block 5.2. For persons with one of the codes 11-51 in column (3) of block 5.1 and not having any subsidiary economic activity, put a 'x' mark in col. (4).

(ii) For persons engaged in economic activity in subsidiary capacity only, their subsidiary status will be copied from column (3) of block 5.2 and recorded in column (4), and principal status will be copied from column (3) of block 5.1 and recorded in column (3).