India - Employment and Unemployment, July 2011- June 2012, NSS 68th Round

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-68-10-2013

Year

2011 - 2012

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

Feb 20, 2019

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Household has MGNREG(Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee ) job card ? (NREG_Job_Card)
File: Block_3_Household characteristics

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 59700
Invalid: 0

Definition

Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee (MGNREG)

Questions and instructions

Pre question

Whether the household has MGNREG job card?: Under the provisions of the MGNREG Act, the Gram Panchayat is to issue job cards to every registered household. The Photographs of the adult members ("adult" means a person who has completed his eighteenth years of age) who are applicants are attached to the job cards. The job cards shall be valid for a period of five years and will have provision for the addition/deletion of members eligible for work. If name of at least one member of the sample household is listed in any job card, entry will be 1, else entry 2 will be recorded.

Literal question

Whether the household has NREG job card (yes-1, no-2) ?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	NA / NR	0	0.0%
1	Yes	22011	36.9%
2	No	37689	63.1%

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

Under the provisions of the NREGA, the Gram Panchayat is to issue job cards to every registered household. The Photographs of the adult members ("adult" means a person who has completed his eighteenth years of age) who are applicants have to be attached to the job cards. The application for registration may be given on plain paper to the local Gram Panchayat. It should contain names of those adult members of the household who are willing to do unskilled manual work. The job cards shall be valid for a period of five years and will have provision for the addition/deletion of members eligible for work. If the household has a NREGA job card, entry will be 1 in this item, otherwise entry will be 2.