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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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Relation to household head (IN1987A_RELATE)

Data file: IND1987_LFS--P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 156
End: 157
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="IN87A070 IN87A401 IN87A408">3. Relation to head:<br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Self<br />[] 2 Spouse of head<br />[] 3 Married child<br />[] 4 Spouse of married child<br />[] 5 Unmarried child<br />[] 6 Grandchild<br />[] 7 Father/mother/father-in-law/mother-in-law<br />[] 8 Brother/sister/brother-in-law/sister-in-law/other relatives<br />[] 9 Servant/employee/other non-relatives</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
01 Household head
02 Spouse
03 Married child
04 Spouse of married child
05 Unmarried child
06 Grandchild
07 Parent or parent-in-law
08 Sibling, sibling-in-law, or other relative
09 Servant, employee, or other non-relative
99 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
<svar a="all" v="IN87A070 IN87A401 IN87A408">5.4.4 <span class="em">Column (3): Relation to head</span>: The family relationship of each member of the household with the head of the household (for the head, the relationship is 'self') expressed in terms of specifies codes will be recorded in this column. The codes to be used are:<br /> <div class="i1">Self 1<br />Spouse of head 2<br />Married child 3<br />Spouse of married child 4<br />Unmarried child 5<br />Grandchild 6<br />Father/mother/father-in-law mother-in-law 7<br />Brother/sister/brother-in-law/sister-in-law/other relatives 8<br />Servant/employee/other non-relatives 9</div><br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the person's relationship to the head of the household.
Universe
India 1987: All persons

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Demographic Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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