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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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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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Usual industry division at time of migration (IN1987A_MIGINDV)

Data file: IND1987_LFS--P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 249
End: 250
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="IN87A473 IN87A474 IN87A475 IN87A476 IN87A477 IN87A479"><span class="em">For code 1 in question 14</span><br />[Questions 15-21 were asked of persons whose place of enumeration was different from last usual residence.]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar v="IN87A476 IN87A477 IN87A479 IN87A480"><span class="h3">Usual activity at the time of migration</span><br /></svar></p>

<p><svar v="IN87A477">20. Industry division:<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
03 Manufacturing
04 Electricity, gas and water
05 Construction
06 Wholesale and 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="IN87A477">5.6.14 <span class="em">Column (20): Industry division</span>: For the persons assigned the activity status codes 11-51 (i.e., those categorized working), the appropriate industry division code will be recorded in column (20).<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the person's usual general industry of employment at the time of migration.
Universe
India 1987: Persons whose place of enumeration differs from their place of birth and who worked [discrepancies: type I trace; type II none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Other Person Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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