India - Employment and Unemployment Survey, July 1999 - June 2000, NSS 55th Round

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-55Rnd-Sch10-and-10dot1-1999-2000

Year

1999 - 2000

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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principal acty status (B71_q3)
File: Block71-sch10-Persons-availability-for-work-Records

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 2

Valid cases: 227802
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

principal acty status

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
11	Worked in hh. enterprise (self-employed) as own account worker	70483	30.9%
12	Worked in hh. enterprise (self-employed) as employer	2597	1.1%
21	Worked as helper in hh. enterprises (unpaid family worker)	40026	17.6%
31	worked as regular salaried/wage employee	42119	18.5%
41	Worked as casual wage labour : in public works	615	0.3%
51	In other types of work	54292	23.8%
81	Did not work but was seeking and/or available for work	781	0.3%
91	Attended educational institutions	1726	0.8%
92	Attended domestic duties only	5463	2.4%
93	Attended domestic duties and engaged in free collection of goods for hh. use	8850	3.9%
94	Rentiers, pensioners, remittance recipients, etc.	335	0.1%
95	Not able to work due to disability	27	0.0%
96	Beggars, prostitutes	10	0.0%
97	Others	478	0.2%

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 principal activity status and subsidiary activity status (activity - I) will be copied from column (3) of block 5.1 and 5.2 to columns (3) and (4), respectively,