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

India Employment and Unemployment Survey, July 1999 - June 2000

NSS 55th Round

Socio-Economic/Household Survey The NSSO carried out the first quinquennial survey on employment - unemployment in the 27th round (September 1972 - October 1973). This first survey made a marked departure from the earlier employment surveys of NSSO in procedure and content. The concepts and procedure followed in this survey were primarily based on the recommendations of the 'Expert Committee on Unemployment Estimates' (1970). Since then, the four successive quinquennial surveys conducted in 32nd, 38th, 43rd and 50th rounds have, more or less, followed an identical approach in the measurement of employment and unemployment. Continuing in this series this was the sixth quinquennial survey conducted as 55th round from July 1999-June 2000.

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

The NSSO surveys on employment and unemployment aim to measure the extent of ‘employment’ and ‘unemployment’ in quantitative terms disaggregated by various household and population characteristics . The persons surveyed are classified in to various activity categories on the basis of the activities pursue d by them during certain specified reference periods. Three reference periods are used in thes e surveys. These are (i) one year (ii) one week and (iii) each day of the week. Based on these th ree periods three different measures are arrived at. These are termed as usual status, current we ekly status ,and the current daily status .In the present survey, apart from the collection of data on employment and unemployment efforts were also made to collect data on the activity profiles of children. This is hoped to make available useful information relating to child labour and its causes. Another new dimension added to the present survey was in the probing questions to the unemployed regarding their educational background, past employment, nature of efforts made and sectors in which employment is sought. The probing questions on the employed to understand the extent of under utilisation of labour time was further expanded to acquire more specific information from the employed. There were also some questions on the qualitative aspects of employment like occupational changes, availability of trade unions, nature of employer etc.

Summary description of the schedule 10:

Schedule 10 on employment-unemployment for this round consisted of 16 blocks.

Blocks 0, 1 and 2 were similar to the ones used in usual NSS rounds. These were used to record identification of sample households and particulars of field operations.

The last two blocks, viz., Blocks 10 & 11, were again the usual blocks to record the remarks of investigator and comments by supervisory officer, respectively.

Block 3 used for recording the household characteristics like household size, religion, social group, land possessed and cultivated, monthly per capita consumer expenditure, etc.,

Block 3.1 was meant for recording particulars of indebtedness of rural labour households.

Block 4 was used for recording the demographic and migration particulars of all the household members.

In Block 5.1, particulars of principal usual activity of all the household members and the details of the enterprises for the usual status workers in the non-agriculture sector were recorded.

Similarly, the particulars of two major subsidiary economic activities of the household members and the details of the enterprises in which they were working recorded in Block 5.2.

The daily time disposition for the previous seven days along with the corresponding activity particulars were recorded for each of the household members in Block 5.3. Besides this, the CWS was derived from the daily time disposition data and recorded in this block.As in the past, wage and salary earnings and mode of payment will also be collected for the workers in this block.

Block 6 was used to record the responses to the probing questions to the persons who were unemployed on all the seven days of the reference week. They were identified on the basis of duration of unemployment during the reference week recorded in Block 5.3.

Blocks 7.1 and 7.2 contains the probing questions which were related to the under-utilisation of labour time and labour mobility, respectively.

For the females classified as engaged in 'domestic duties' as per their usual principal status, some follow-up questions were framed and listed in Block 8 with a view to collecting some additional information which might explain as to whether their usual attachment to domestic duties was voluntary or involuntary and also throw light on their participation in some specified activities for family gain.

A worksheet to obtain the household monthly total expenditure provided in Block 9

Some important points on Schedule 10.1

The following points may be kept in mind while collecting data for Schedule 10.1:

1. This schedule had 9 blocks including the usual blocks 0, 1, 2, 10 and 11. The other blocks were blocks 4, 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3.

2. All the references i.e., block number, column/item number were same as in Schedule 10. The concepts, definitions and procedures of data collection were, therefore, same as for Schedule 10.

3. Blocks 0 and 1 always filled in and item 12, block 1 always 2. During the second visit, a household was substituted if it does not cooperate and refuses to provide information. In case the household was substituted at the time of revisit, i.e., item 18, block 1 will be 2, only blocks 0 and 1 were filled and the top page of schedule 10.1 was torn off and attached to schedule 10 canvassed for the substituted household.

4. There may be a situation when the sample household has shifted out of the village / block or cease to exit at the time of revisit to the household and hence cannot be located within the FSU. In such a situation, blocks 0 and 1 only were filled in for the household and code 3 (not found) was recorded against item 18 of block 1. However, if the household has changed its location within the FSU, then that household was surveyed at the present location.

5. In the case of a split in the sample household after the first visit, the part found in the previous location was surveyed and the other part, if it remains in the FSU, was treated as new household. This new household formed a part of the second stage stratum 9. If both the parts were within the FSU but none of them was found in the previous location, then the household having the senior most member of the erstwhile household was surveyed. If again only one part of the household remains within the FSU, then that was located and surveyed.

6. Schedule 10 was always be canvassed for the households belonging to second-stage stratum 9.

7. Information for the schedule was mostly collected by the same investigator and from the same informant of the household as was done during the first visit to the household.

8. Item 19, block 1 was filled in after filling up of block 4. In the case where the household was substituted, it wass left blank.

9. For part A (erstwhile members) of block 4, serial number (col.1), name (col.2) and age (col. 5) were copied from block 4 of schedule 10 canvassed during the first visit to the household.

10. For part A of block 4, columns 13, 14 and 20 were not filled in.

11. Column 21 of block 4 was invariably filled in for all persons listed in part A and part B.

12. For part B of block 4, all the columns (1 to 21) were filled in.

13. Blocks 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3 were filled in afresh for all the present members of the household irrespective of whether they were listed in part A or B of block 4.

Topic	Vocabulary	URI
Labor Markets	World Bank	http://www.surveynetwork.org/toolkit

Employment, Unemployment, Indebtedness of rural labour, Usual principal activity, Usual subsidiary activity, Time disposition during the week, Unemloyed persons on all the 7 days of the week, Change of nature of work, Change of establishment The survey covered the whole of the Indian Union excepting (i) Ladakh & Kargil districts of Jammu & Kashmir, (ii) interior villages of Nagaland situated beyond 5 kms. of a bus route & (iii) villages of Andaman & Nicobar Islands remaining inaccessible throughout the year. All the villages of the country, uninhabited according to 1991 census, were also left out of the survey coverage of the NSS 55th round.

The survey used the interview method of data collection from a sample of randomly selected households and members of the household

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation	Role
Computer Centre	MOSPI, CC	M/O Statistics & Programme Implementation	Documentation of the study

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