India - Employment and Unemployment Survey: NSS 43rd Round : July 1987 - June 1988, Fourth Quinquennial Survey

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-43Rnd-Sch10-1987-88

Year

1987 - 1988

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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Current weekly activity status (CWAS)code (B4_q11)
File: Block-4-Persons-Demographic-current-weekly-activity- Records

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 2

Valid cases: 667848
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Current week activity status

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
11	Worked in Household Enterprises (Self-Employed).	103426	15.5%
21	Worked as Helper in Household Enterprises	27925	4.2%
31	Worked as Regular Salaried/Wage Employee	44109	6.6%
41	Worked as Casual Wage Labour in Public Work	2835	0.4%
51	Worked as Casual Wage Labour in Other Types Of Work	46697	7.0%
61	Had Work But Did Not Work Due to Sickness	764	0.1%
62	Had Work But Did Not Work Due to Other Reasons	1598	0.2%
71	Had Regular Employment But Did Not Work Due to Sicknes	386	0.1%
72	Had Regular Employment But Did Not Work Due to Other Reasons	1208	0.2%
81	Sought Work	9983	1.5%
82	Did Not Seek but Available For Work	1990	0.3%
91	Attended Educational Institution	134477	20.1%
92	Attended Domestic Duties Only	86959	13.0%
93	Attended Domestic Duties & also Engaged Work For Household Use	43536	6.5%
94	Renters, Pensioners, Remittance Recipients, Etc.	3111	0.5%
95	Not Able to Work Due to Disability.	3293	0.5%
96	Beggars, Prostitutes, Etc	442	0.1%
97	Others	72138	10.8%
98	Did Not Work Due to Sickness(For Casual Workers Only)	947	0.1%
99	Invalid	82024	12.3%

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

The current week activity status of a person will be activity status obtaining for a person during a reference period of seven days preceding the date of survey. Irrespective of the usual activity pursued by a person, his/her current week activity will be determined strictly on the basis of the activities pursued by the person during the reference period of seven days preceding the date of survey adopting the priority criterion.( For more details refer instruction manual attached as external resource.)