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Socio-Economic Survey, Household Schedule 10: Employment and Unemployment January to December, 1983 - IPUMS Subset

India, 1983
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IND_1983_NSS38-SCH10_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS
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National Sample Survey Organization, Government of India, Minnesota Population Center
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Informant type (IN1983A_0030)

Data file: IND1983-H-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 116
End: 116
Width: 1
Range: -
Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question
18. Informant:

[] 1 Head of household
[] 2 Other member of household
[] 9 Others
Categories
Value Category
1 Head of household
2 Other member of household
3 Others
9 Unknown
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
5.1.3 Item 17-19: primary informant
The name of the primary informant i.e., the person from whole bulk of the information will be collected is to be recorded against item 17. Whether the primary informant is the head of the household or any other member of the household will be indicated against item 18 in terms of code '1' and code '2' respectively. If the primary informant is not a member of the household code '9' will be recorded. The type of primary informant i.e., whether he is co-operative, busy etc. will be recorded against item 19 in terms of the specified codes. The codes are:

Co-operative and capable - 1
Co-operative but not capable - 2
Busy - 3
Reluctant - 4
Others - 9


This information will be recorded on the basis of the investigator's impression after canvassing the entire schedule 10.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates whether the respondent of enumeration was the household head, other household member, or others.
Universe
All households

concept

Concept
Name Vocabulary
Technical Household Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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