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Socio-Economic Survey, Household Schedule 10: Employment and Unemployment July, 1999-June, 2000 - IPUMS Subset

India, 1999 - 2000
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IND_1999_NSS55-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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Nature of employment (IN1999A_0450)

Data file: IND1999-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 198
End: 198
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 9
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
[7.2] Follow-up questions on change of nature of work and/or establishment to persons working in the usual principal status or subsidiary status (activity - I) (i.e. those with codes 11-51 in question 3 of bl. 5.1 or bl. 5.2)



Usual status
[Questions 3-4.]

3. Principal (as in question 3 of section 5.1):

[] 11 Worked in household enterprise (self-employed): own account worker
[] 12 Worked in household enterprise (self-employed): employer
[] 21 Worked as a helper in household enterprise (unpaid family worker)
[] 31 Worked as regular salaried/wage employee
[] 41 Worked as casual wage labour: in public works
[] 51 Worked as casual wage labour: in other types of work
[] 81 Did not seek but was seeking and/or available for work
[] 91 Attended educational institution
[] 92 Attended domestic duties only
[] 93 Attended domestic duties and was also engaged in free collection of goods (vegetables, roots, firewood, cattle feed etc.) sewing, tailoring, weaving etc., for household use
[] 94 Rentiers, pensioners, remittance recipients etc.
[] 95 Not able to work due to disability
[] 96 Beggars, prostitutes
[] 97 Others


4. Subsidiary activity (as in question 3 of section 5.2):

[] 11 Worked in household enterprise (self-employed): own account worker
[] 12 Worked in household enterprise (self-employed): employer
[] 21 Worked as a helper in household enterprise (unpaid family worker)
[] 31 Worked as regular salaried/wage employee
[] 41 Worked as casual wage labour: in public works
[] 51 Worked as casual wage labour: in other types of work




For code 11-51 in question 3 or 4
[Questions 7-8 were asked of persons who worked, per questions 3 or 4.]



7. Nature of employment:

[] 1 Permanent
[] 2 Temporary
Categories
Value Category
1 Permanent
2 Temporary
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
5.7.2.0 Block 7.2: Follow-up questions on change of nature of work and/or establishment to persons working in the usual principal or subsidiary status (activity - I) (i.e. with codes 11-51 in col. 3 of bl. 5.1 or 5.2): This block will be filled in only for persons categorised as employed either in principal or subsidiary status (I). Attempt is made to collect information on certain qualitative aspects of mobility - changes in occupation, industry, establishment, etc., for the employed in the principal status and membership in trade unions, nature of employment, etc. for the employed either in the principal or subsidiary status.



Columns (7) and (8) will be filled in only for those who are workers i.e., those with activity status codes any of 11-51 in col.(3) or (4).



5.7.2.5 Column (7): Nature of employment: In column (7), the nature of employment (i.e., whether permanent or temporary) will be recorded in terms of code. Nature of employment will be considered as permanent if the person is in normal course likely to continue in the same employment. Code 1 or 2 will be given if the employment is permanent or temporary respectively.

1 Permanent
2 Temporary

Description

Definition
This variable indicates whether the person's employment is permanent or temporary.
Universe
Persons age 5+ whose principal or subsidiary activity was working

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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