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Socio-Economic Survey, Household Schedule 10: Employment and Unemployment, July, 1987-June, 1988 - IPUMS Subset

India, 1988
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Reference ID
IND_1987_ES_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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National Sample Survey Organization, Government of India, IPUMS
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  • IND1987_LFS--H-H.dat
  • IND1987_LFS--P-H.dat

Current industry (IN1987A_INDDIV)

Data file: IND1987_LFS--P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 171
End: 172
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="IN87A071 IN87A072 IN87A412 IN87A413 IN87A414 IN87A415 IN87A416"><span class="h3">Current weekly activity particulars </span><br />[Questions 11-15]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar v="IN87A413 IN87A415 IN87A416"><span class="em">For codes 11-72 in question 11</span><br />[Questions 12-15 were asked of persons who worked or had regular employment, per question 11.]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar v="IN87A413">12. Industry div. code (NIC-1970):<br /><div class="i1">[] 0 Agriculture, hunting, forestry and fishing<br />[] 1 Mining and quarrying<br />[] 2 Manufacturing<br />[] 3 Manufacturing<br />[] 4 Electricity, gas and water<br />[] 5 Construction<br />[] 6 Wholesale and retail trade and restaurants and hotels<br />[] 7 Transport, storage, and communication<br />[] 8 Financing, insurance, real estate and business service<br />[] 9 Community, social and personal services</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
00 Agricultural, hunting, forestry and fishing
01 Mining and quarrying
02 Manufacturing
04 Electricity, gas and water
05 Construction
06 Wholesale/retail trade, restaurants and hotels
07 Transport, storage and communication
08 Financing, insurance, real estate and business services
09 Community, social and personal services
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
<svar a="all" v="IN87A413">5.4.12 <span class="em">Column (12): Industry division</span>: for the persons categorized 'working' (i.e., those with status codes 11-72) the corresponding, 'industry division' will be recorded in terms of the specified codes in column (12). The codes are:<br /><div class="i1">Agricultural, hunting, forestry and fishing....0<br />Mining and quarrying.......1<br />Manufacturing.........2/3<br />Electricity, gas and water..........4<br />Construction............ 5<br />Wholesale and retail trade, restaurants and hotels.... 6<br />Transport, storage and communication..... 7<br />Financing, insurance, real estate and business services.. 8<br />Community, social and personal services.......9</div><br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable identifies the person's current industry.
Universe
India 1987: Persons age 5+ who were currently employed [discrepancies: type I trace; type II none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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