India - Housing Condition and Migration Survey, January - June 1993, NSS 49th Round

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-49Rnd-Sch1dot2-1993

Year

1993

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)

Other Surveys

Created on

Jan 17, 2018

Last modified

Mar 27, 2019

Page views

178995

Reason of migration(code) (B3_q12_c5)
File: Block-3-Part-2-Persons--Particulars of past members outside-records

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1

Valid cases: 17292
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Reason for migration (code)

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	NR	26	0.2%
1	In search of employment/better employment	8318	48.1%
2	Transfer of service/contract/take up employment	4239	24.5%
3	Studies	2779	16.1%
4	Marriage	323	1.9%
5	Movement of parents/earning member	1063	6.1%
9	Others	544	3.1%

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

Migration here refers to the movement of the household members to a place outside state. The reason for such movement is to be ascertained for each of the members listed in col.1 of this item and noted in this column. While ascertaining the reasons for migration of persons who have first moved to a state and then to another state of abroad, the following procedure may be adopted. In the case of persons who have moved to state A and then to state B, the reason is to be recorded for the first move. In the case of persons who first moved to state A and then to country C, the reason for moving to country C is to be recorded. In case of persons who moved to country C and then to country D, the reason for going to country C is to be recorded.
Lastly, if a person has moved from country C to state A the reason for moving to state A is to be recorded. The reasons for migration are coded