India - Employment, Unemployment and Migration Survey, July 2007 - June 2008, NSS 64th Round

Reference ID

IND-NSSO-EUMS-2007-v1

Year

2007 - 2008

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office - M/o Statistcs and Programme Implementation (MOSPI), Government of India (GOI)

Sponsor(s)

M/o Statistics & Programme Implementation, GOI - MOSPI -

Collection(s)

Employment and Unemployment

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Jan 18, 2018

Last modified

Mar 25, 2019

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Reason for migration (B3_q11)
File: Block-3-household-characteristics-ecords

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 2

Valid cases: 0
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category
01	In search of employment
02	In search of better employment
03	Business
04	To take up employment/better employment
05	Transfer of service/ contract
06	Proximity to place of work
07	Studies
08	Natural disaster (drought, flood, tsunami, etc.)
10	Social/political problems (riots, terrorism, political refugee, bad law and order, etc.)
11	Displacement by development project
12	Acquisition of own house/flat
13	Housing problems
14	Health care
15	Post retirement
16	Marriage
17	Migration of parent/earning member of the family
19	Others;

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 each household, which has migrated, the reason for such migration will be ascertained and recorded in codes. While ascertaining the reason, it may be noted that though different members of the household may have different reasons for migration, only that factor which is the basic reason for migration of the household is to be ascertained and recorded. This reasons for migration of the household is to be recorded in terms of the codes: