Socio-Economic Survey, Household Schedule 10: Employment and Unemployment July, 2004-June, 2005 - IPUMS Subset

India, 2004 - 2005

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IND_2004_NSS61-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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Household type (IN2004A_0042)

Data file: IND2004-H-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 137

End: 137

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

4. Household type:

For rural areas:

[] 1 Self-employed in non-agriculture
[] 2 Agricultural labour
[] 3 Other labour
[] 4 Self-employed in agriculture
[] 9 Others

For urban areas:

[] 1 Self-employed
[] 2 Regular-wage/salary earning
[] 3 Casual labour
[] 9 Others

Categories

Value	Category
1	Rural: self-employed in non-agriculture/Urban: self-employed
2	Rural: agricultural labor/Urban: regular wage/salary earning
3	Rural: other labor/Urban: casual labor
4	Rural: self-employed in agriculture
9	Others

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

4.3.0 Block 3: Household characteristics: Certain household characteristics, such as, household size, household type, religion, social-group, household industry, household occupation, monthly household consumer expenditure, number of members who got work for at least 60 days in public works during the last 365 days, land owned/ land possessed as on the date of survey, land cultivated (including orchard and plantation) during July 2003 - June 2004, etc., which are intended to be used mainly as classificatory characteristics in studying the indicators of employment and unemployment will be recorded in this block.

4.3.5 Item 4: Household type (code): For the rural areas, the selected household will be assigned appropriate type code out of the following five different household type codes:

1. Self-employed in non-agriculture
2. Agricultural labour
3. Other labour
4. Self-employed in agriculture
9. Others

For urban areas, the household type codes are as follows:

1. Self-employed
2. Regular wage/salary earning
3. Casual labour
9. Others

[P.53]
4.3.6 The procedure for assigning household type codes for both rural and urban areas has been discussed in Chapter Three. A household, which does not have any income from economic activities, will get type code 9 (others).

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the household type, based on the household income source.

Universe

All households

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Other Household Variables -- HOUSEHOLD	IPUMS

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