Socio-Economic Survey, Household Schedule 10: Employment and Unemployment July, 1993-June, 1994 - IPUMS Subset

India, 1993 - 1994

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IND_1993_NSS50-SCH10_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS

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National Sample Survey Organization, Government of India, Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Place of usual work (IN1993A_0416)

Data file: IND1993-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 155

End: 156

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Principal usual activity
[Questions 12- 16.]

16. Place of work:

[] 1 Same village/town: distance less than 5 kilometers
[] 2 Same village/town: distance 5-20 kilometers
[] 3 Same village/town: distance 20 kilometers and above
[] 4 Another village: distance less than 5 kilometers
[] 5 Another village: distance 5-20 kilometers
[] 6 Another village: distance 20 kilometers and above
[] 7 Another town: distance less than 5 kilometers
[] 8 Another town: distance 5-20 kilometers
[] 9 Another town: distance 20 kilometers and above

Categories

Value	Category
1	Same village/town, distance less than 5 kms
2	Same village/town, distance 5 to 20 kms
3	Same village/town, distance 20 kms and above
4	Another village, distance less than 5 kms
5	Another village, distance 5 to 20 kms
6	Another village, distance 20 kms and above
7	Another town, distance less than 5 kms
8	Another town, distance 5 to 20 kms
9	Another town, distance 20 kms and above
98	Unknown
99	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

5.4.13 Column (16): Place of work: For all persons assigned work status codes i.e., codes 11-51 in col. (12) information on their usual place of work vis-a-vis their place of stay will be collected. First the place of work viz., same village/town or another village or another town will be identified. Thereafter codes will be given according to the distance to be commuted to the place of work. For persons who do not have a fixed place of work like itinerant vendors, hawkers etc., the place of work may be taken same as their place of stay. In the case of taxi-drivers/rickshaw pullers etc. the taxi/rickshaw stand or the garage may be taken as the place of work. The codes to be recorded for various cases are as given below:

Same village/town:

1. distance less than 5 kilometers
2. distance 5-20 kilometers
3. distance 20 kilometers and above

Another village:

4. distance less than 5 kilometers
5. distance 5-20 kilometers
6. distance 20 kilometers and above

Another town:

7. distance less than 5 kilometers
8. distance 5-20 kilometers
9. distance 20 kilometers and above

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the place of the person's principal usual work.

Universe

Persons who worked as principal usual activity status

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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