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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Whether stayed away from village/ town (B6_c3)
File: Block-6-members-migration-records

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 0
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category
1	Yes
2	No

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 person, it is to be ascertained whether during last 365 days preceding the date of survey, he/she stayed away from the village/town for 1 month or more but less than 6 months for the purpose of employment or in search of employment. Code 1 is to be assigned if the reply is in the affirmative, otherwise entry will be 2. For filling in this column, the following points may be kept in mind:

(i) for the purpose of determining the period of staying away, only those periods will be considered for which the member stayed away from the household continuously for 15 days or more during the last 365 days.
(ii) a continuous period of staying away for 15 days or more from the village/ town is termed as a spell.
(iii) a period of 30 days will be considered as 1 month.
(iv) the purpose of stay away from village/town should be 'for employment or in search of employment' only.