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Socio-Economic Survey, Household Schedule 10: Employment and Unemployment July, 1987-June, 1988 - IPUMS Subset

India, 1987 - 1988
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IND_1987_NSS43-SCH10_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS
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National Sample Survey Organization, Government of India, Minnesota Population Center
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Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Reason spent most of time on domestic duties (IN1987A_0438)

Data file: IND1987-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 189
End: 189
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 9
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
[8] Follow-up questions for persons with usual activity status codes 92 and 93 (reference: question 2, section 6)
[Questions 1-26 were asked of persons who attended domestic duties, per question 2 of section 6.]




5. For code 1 in question 4 [If you were required to spend most of your time on domestic duties almost throughout the last 365 days, per question 4.], reason thereof:

[] 1 No other member to carry out the domestic duties
[] 2 Cannot afford hired help
[] 3 For social and/or religious constraints
[] 9 Others
Categories
Value Category
1 No other member to carry out the domestic duties
2 Cannot afford hired help
3 For social and/or religious constraints
4 Other
8 Unknown
9 NIU (not in universe)
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
5.8.4 Item 4 -- 6: It will be ascertained whether the relevant persons are required to spend most of their time during 365 days preceding the date of survey on domestic duties. If the answer is in the affirmative, code 1 and if the answer is in the negative, code 2 will be recorded against 4 for each of the relevant members. If the answer is 'yes' , i.e., if the entry against item 4 is code 1 for a person, the reason for his/her participation in the household duties will be ascertained and recorded in terms of the specified code numbers against item 5. The relevant codes to be used are:

No other member to carry out the domestic duties....1
Cannot afford hired help........2
For social and/or religious constraints....3
Others...........9


For such a person, item 6 will be left blank. On the other hand, if the entry against item 4 is code '2' for a person, (i.e., such participation was not required but still the person participated in the household chores) the reason for his/her voluntary participation in household chores will be ascertained and the code relevant to the answer obtained will be recorded against item 6. In such a case, item 5 will be left blank. The codes to be used for making entries against item 6 are:

Non- availability of work.....1
By preference...2
Others......9

Description

Definition
This variable indicates, for those who spent most of their time on domestic duties, the reason they spent most of time on domestic duties.
Universe
Persons age 5+ who spent most of time on domestic duties over last 365 days

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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