India - Employment and Unemployment Survey, January to December, 1983, 38th Round

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-38Rnd-Sch10-1983

Year

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 15, 2018

Last modified

Mar 26, 2019

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Duration of present spell of unemployment (B5_q17)
File: Block-5-Persons-DailyActivity-records

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 21272
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

For persons unemployed on all the 7 days, duration of present spell of unemployment (code)

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Only one week	890	4.2%
2	Up to two weeks .	1290	6.1%
3	Up to one month.	1222	5.7%
4	Up to two months	2926	13.8%
5	Up to three months	602	2.8%
6	Up to six months	516	2.4%
7	More than six months	13826	65.0%

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 reported as unemployed on all the seven days of the week the duration of the current continuous spell of unemployment will be recorded against the relevant total line in terms of the specified code.It may be noted that the duration to be recorded will relate only to the present spell. For example, if a person was 'unemployed, say, for two months, then employed for a short period and again unemployed and found so at the time of enumeration, for the purpose of making entry in this column for such a person the latter spell of unemployment need only be considered.