Literal question
[5.1] Usual principal activity particulars of household members
16. Period of seeking/available for work during last 365 days:
For persons of age 5 years and above,
Sought/available for:
[] 1 Less than 1 month
[] 2 1 to 2 months
[] 3 3 to 6 months
[] 4 7 to 9 months
[] 5 10 to 12 months
[] 6. Did not seek/not available
Interviewer instructions
4.5.1.0 Block 5.1: Usual principal activity particulars of household members: The usual principal activity particulars of each member of the household will be collected in this block. This will include information on industry-occupation of the working members, some particulars of the enterprises in which they are working and conditions of employment for the persons employed as regular wage/salaried employee and casual labour. The particulars of usual activity are collected with reference to a period of 365 days preceding the date of survey. The relevant concepts like 'activity status', 'economic activity', 'usual principal activity', 'usual subsidiary economic activity', etc. are explained in Chapter One. The description of the items and the procedure for recording them are explained below:
4.5.1.21 Column (16): Period of seeking/ available for work during last 365 days: For persons of age 5 years and above, it is to be ascertained whether they were seeking/ available for work for some period during last 365 days. The period, which need not necessarily be continuous, for which the person was seeking/ available for work during last 365 days will be first rounded off to the nearest number of months and then appropriate code is to be given. For example, a person may be employed in his/ her principal usual activity status based on the major time criterion. But he/ she may have been looking for work for some period. Similarly, a girl may have been looking for job for sometime but subsequently got married and was engaged in the domestic duties. The latter activity might have been pursued for a relatively longer period. In all such cases, one of the codes 1 to 5, applicable for the situation, will be given. If a person was not seeking or available for work any time during the preceding 365 days, the appropriate code will be 6.
The code structure for period of seeking/ availability for work is as given below:
Sought/available for:
1. Less than 1 month
2. 1 to 2 months
3. 3 to 6 months
4. 7 to 9 months
5. 10 to 12 months
6. Did not seek/not available
