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

Created on

Jan 18, 2018

Last modified

Mar 25, 2019

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Reason for migration (B31_c5)
File: Block-3dot1-out-migrants-records

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 out-migrant, the reason for migration will be ascertained and recorded in codes. This reasons for migration of the out-migrants is to be recorded in terms of the following codes