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

For each persons listed in column (1) of this block (which will be same as listed in column (1) of block 4) the different activities pursued by them during all the seven days of the reference week will be serially numbered and this serial number of activity will be recorded in column (3). Presuming that the likelihood of one person pursuing more than four different activities in a week is rather remote, only four lines are provided for each person. As stated earlier, if a person pursue more than four different activities, the lines meant for the next person may be utilised. The current activity of a person in the rural areas is denoted by his status-cum-industry-cum-operation. Thus for a person with the same status, if the industry (at the tabulation category level) or operation are different on the same or different days, he will be considered to have pursued different activities and these activities will be entered in different lines. Similarly, for the urban areas the current activity of a person is denoted by his status-cum-industry. Thus, if a person in urban areas ploughs his own field in the first half of the day and sows in the second half of the day he will be considered to have only one activity during the day. But for rural areas, he will be considered to have two activities.