India - Employment and Unemployment Survey: NSS 38th Round, Schedule 10, 1983

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DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-38Rnd-Sch10-1983

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India

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National Sample Survey Office

Sponsor(s)

M/o Statistics & Programme Implementation, GOI - MOSPI -

Collection(s)

National Sample Survey

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Usual activity status(UAS) (B42_q11)
File: Block-42-Persons-migration-records

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 2

Valid cases: 140550
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Literal question

At the time of migration Usual activity status(UAS)?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
01	Attached to land lord.	137	0.1%
02	Attached to money lender.	30	0.0%
03	Attached to land lord-cum-money lender.	14	0.0%
04	Attached to others.	27	0.0%
11	Worked (self-employed) in household enterprise.	8630	6.1%
21	worked as helper in household enterprise.	7635	5.4%
31	worked as regular salaried/wage employee.	8544	6.1%
41	worked as casual wage labour in public works.	131	0.1%
51	worked as casual wage labour in other types of work	14107	10.0%
81	Sought work.	4239	3.0%
91	Attended education institution.	11715	8.3%
92	Attended domestic duties only.	53361	38.0%
93	Attended domestic duties and was also Engaged in free collection of good, sewing, tailoring, weaving etc. for household use	16806	12.0%
94	Too young to work/attend school/seek employment.	12054	8.6%
95	Old and disabled.	1106	0.8%
96	Rentiers, pensioners, remittance recipients etC.	176	0.1%
97	Beggars, prostitutes, etc.	86	0.1%
98	Others.	1752	1.2%

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 usual activity status of a person will be determined on the basis of the various activities pursued by the person during a reference period of 365 days adopting 'relatively long time (or major time)' criterion.