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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Amount considered renumerative (Amount_considered_remunerative)
File: Block_7pt1_level_08

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 160824
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

For codes 11, 12, 21 in col. 3/ col. 4 ( meant for Principla/Subsidiary usual activity status code ),

what
amount (Rs.) per month would you regard as remunerative? (code)

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	NR	0	0.0%
1	Less than or equal to Rs.1000	23069	14.3%
2	Rs 1001 to Rs. 1500	25259	15.7%
3	Rs, 1501 to Rs. 2000	23486	14.6%
4	Rs 2001 to Rs. 2500	17176	10.7%
5	Rs. 2501 to Rs, 3000	19301	12.0%
6	More than Rs. 3000	52533	32.7%

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

Column (10) & (11): Earning from employment: Columns (10) and (11) will be filled in for the persons, whose status is self-employed either in the principal status or in the subsidiary status, i.e., codes 11, 12 or 21 either in column (3) or in column (4). Columns (10) & (11) will be used to have some idea about earning from self-employment.
Column (11): What amount (Rs) per month would you regard as remunerative: This column is to be filled-in for all the self-employed members of the household for whom column (10) is filled in. The desired level of earnings in a month from all the activities carried out by them in the self-employment capacity, considering the existing situation in respect of type of activity, scale of operation of the business (s), market condition, location of the business, etc., is to be ascertained and recorded in terms of the codes as given below:

less than or equal to Rs.1000…………………. 1
Rs 1001 to Rs. 1500 ……………………….…. 2
Rs, 1501 to Rs. 2000 …………………….…… 3
Rs. 2001 to Rs. 2500 ……………………….… 4
Rs. 2501 to Rs, 3000 ……………………….… 5
more than Rs. 3000 ……………………….…. 6