National Sample Survey 2004-2005 (61th round) - Schedule 10 - South Asia Labor Flagship Dataset
India, 2004 - 2005
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Apr 25, 2019
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Work status, secondary occupation (b12)
Data file: ses42_2
Overview
Valid:
21177
Invalid:
7070
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
9
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Range:
-
Format:
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| 1 | Employer |
| 2 | Own-account worker |
| 3 | Private employee |
| 4 | Government employee |
| 5 | Unpaid family worker |
| 6 | Unemployed |
| 7 | Economically inactive |
| 9 | No occupation |
| Sysmiss |
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.
Description
Definition
Work Status
Work status was classified into 7 different categories as follows:
(1) An employer was defined as a person who operated his or her own enterprise for profit or dividends and hired one or more persons as his or her employee.
(2) An own-account worker in the form of a partnership either for profit or dividends and hired no employees.
(3) A private employee was a person who worked for pay in a government agency, a government enterprise as well as an international organization.
(5) An unpaid family member was a person worked without pay on a farm or in a business owned or operated by the household head or other household members.
(6) A person looking for work was a person who did not work at all during the last 52 weeks but has applied for work either at business establishments or by mailing letters of application.
(7) An economically inactive person was one of the following:
a) a housewife or person who worked around the house
b) a student
c) a retired person
d) a disabled person who was unable to work because of physical or mental disability or because of chronic illness
e) a person doing nothing who was voluntarily idle, and
f) a beggar
Work status was classified into 7 different categories as follows:
(1) An employer was defined as a person who operated his or her own enterprise for profit or dividends and hired one or more persons as his or her employee.
(2) An own-account worker in the form of a partnership either for profit or dividends and hired no employees.
(3) A private employee was a person who worked for pay in a government agency, a government enterprise as well as an international organization.
(5) An unpaid family member was a person worked without pay on a farm or in a business owned or operated by the household head or other household members.
(6) A person looking for work was a person who did not work at all during the last 52 weeks but has applied for work either at business establishments or by mailing letters of application.
(7) An economically inactive person was one of the following:
a) a housewife or person who worked around the house
b) a student
c) a retired person
d) a disabled person who was unable to work because of physical or mental disability or because of chronic illness
e) a person doing nothing who was voluntarily idle, and
f) a beggar