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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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Distance to place of work (IN1987A_PLACEWK)

Data file: IND1987_LFS--P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 195
End: 196
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="IN87A426">13. Place of work:<br /><div class="i1">Same village/town:</div><br /><div class="i2">[] 1 Distance less than 5 kilometers<br />[] 2 Distance 5-20 kilometers<br />[] 3 Distance 20 kilometers and above</div><br /><div class="i1">Another village:</div><br /><div class="i2">[] 4 Distance less than 5 kilometers<br />[] 5 Distance 5-20 kilometers<br />[] 6 Distance 20 kilometers and above</div><br /><div class="i1">Another town:</div><br /><div class="i2">[] 7 Distance less than 5 kilometers<br />[] 8 Distance 5-20 kilometers<br />[] 9 Distance 20 kilometers and above</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
01 Same village/town less than 5 km
02 Same village/town 5-20 km
03 Same village/town 20 km or more
04 Another village less than 5 km
05 Another village 5-20 km
06 Another village 20 km or more
07 Another town less than 5 km
08 Another town 5-20 km
09 Another town 20 km or more
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="IN87A426">5.6.8 <span class="em">Column (13): Place of work</span>: For all persons assigned work status codes, i.e., codes 11-51 in column (2), information on their usual places of work vis- -vis their places of stay will be collected and recorded in this column in terms of the specified codes. For a sample, a person staying in a village may be working in the same village or in another village or in a town and that also for different persons, the distance to be computed may be different. Similarly, a person staying in a town may be working in the same town, another town or in a village. According to the situation obtaining for each relevant person and also taking into consideration the distance to be commuted, the appropriate code will be decided and recorded. The codes are:<br /><br />Same village/town: distance:<br /> <div class="i1">less than 5 km. - 1<br />5 - 20 km. - 2<br />20 km. and above - 3</div><br />Another village: distance:<br /><div class="i1">less than 5 km. - 4<br />5 - 20 km. - 5<br />20 km. and above - 6</div><br />Another town: distance:<br /><div class="i1">less then 5 km. - 7<br />5 - 20 km. - 8<br />20 km. and above - 9</div><br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the distance from the person's home to place of employment.
Universe
India 1987: Persons age 5+ who usually worked [discrepancies: type I trace; type II none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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