India - Employment and Unemployment Survey, July 1993 - June 1994, NSS 50th Round

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-50Rnd-Sch10-1993-94

Year

1993 - 1994

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 17, 2018

Last modified

Mar 27, 2019

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Subsidiary activity status (code) (B4_q18)
File: Block-4-Persons-Records

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 2

Valid cases: 69956
Invalid: 0

Definition

A person whose principal usual status is determined on the basis of the major time criterion may have pursued some economic activity for a relatively shorter time (minor time) during the reference period of 365 days preceding the date of survey. The status in which such economic activity is pursued is the subsidiary economic activity status of the person.

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Usual subsidiary gainful activity status(code)

Source of information

Instructions to the Field staff,Section Five (Attached as Manual-2 in the external resources)

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
11	Worked In Hh Enterprise (Self Employed)As Own Account Worker	26711	38.2%
12	Worked In Hh Enterprise (Self Employed) As Employer	1677	2.4%
21	Worked As Helper In Hh Enterprises (Unpaid Family Worker)	26646	38.1%
31	Worked As Regular Salaried/Wage Employee	706	1.0%
41	Worked As Casual Wage Labour In Public Works	378	0.5%
51	Worked As Casual Wage Labour In Other Types Of Work	13084	18.7%
81	Did Not Work But Was Seeking And/Or Available For Work	4	0.0%
91	Attended Educational Institutions	7	0.0%
92	Attended Domestic Duties Only	224	0.3%
93	Attended Domestic Duties And Was Also Engaged In Free Collection Of Goods For Hh Use	264	0.4%
94	Rentiers, Pensioners, Remittance	13	0.0%
95	Not Able To Work Due To Disability	0	0.0%
96	Beggars, Prostitutes	2	0.0%
97	Others	6	0.0%
99	Invalid	234	0.3%

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

For persons having code 1 in column (17), the status codes of the economic activities pursued by them in the subsidiary capacity will be recorded in column (18) in terms of codes already specified for col.(12). In cases where a person is found to have pursued more than one type of economic activity in his/her subsidiary capacity, the activity on which more time was spent will be considered for recording the entries in this column. As only economic activity statuses are to be recorded, only codes 11-51 will be applicable.