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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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  • IND1987_LFS--P-H.dat

How many months seeking or available for work (including additional or alternate) (IN1987A_SEEKMTHS)

Data file: IND1987_LFS--P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 203
End: 203
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="IN87A480 IN87A482 IN87A430 IN87A435 IN87A436 IN87A431 IN87A432 IN87A433 IN87A434"><span class="h2">[7] Follow up questions for persons with usual activity status codes 11-94 (reference question 2, section 6)</span><br />[Questions 1-10 were asked of persons who can work, per question 2 of section 6.]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar v="IN87A434">10. For how many months, during the last 365 days were you available for work/additional work/alternative work?<br /><div class="i1">[] 1 Less than 1 month<br />[] 2 1-3 months<br />[] 3 3-6 months<br />[] 4 6-9 months<br />[] 5 9 months or more</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 less than 1 month
2 1 to 3 months
3 3 to 6 months
4 6 to 9 months
5 9 months or more
8 Unknown
9 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="IN87A433 IN87A434">5.7.10 <span class="em">(Items 9 and 10)</span>: The questions listed against these items will be asked only to those persons who answer in the affirmative (i.e. those with codes 1, 2 or 3 in items 8) to the question listed against item 8. As mentioned earlier, these questions are to be suitably put depending on the answer obtained for the question against item 8, i.e., depending on whether the person wanted 'additional work', alternative work' or 'work'. Through the question listed in item 9, it will be ascertained, what efforts the persons reported to be available for work/additional work/alternative work have made to get in the work. If a person is found to have been on the live register of the employment exchange, code 1 will be recorded for the person against this item. Concurrently, if he or she has made some other efforts to get work, like contacting prospective employers, responding to advertisement, etc., priority will be given to registration with employment exchange' and in such cases also, code 1 will be recorded. For a person who is currently not in the live register of the employment exchange but has made other efforts to get work, code 2 will be assigned. If no effort has been made code 3 will be recorded.<br /><br />Through the question listed as item 10, for persons who have answered in the affirmative to the question listed as item 8, the information on the number of months for which they were available for work/additional work/ alternative work will be ascertained and record against item 11 in terms of appropriate code numbers which are:<br /><div class="i1">Less than 1 month......1<br />1-3 months......2<br />3-6 months......3<br />6-9 months......4<br />9 months or more......5</div><br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates how many months the person was seeking or available for work, including additional work and alternate work.
Universe
India 1987: Persons age 5+ working, in school, doing household work, or pensioners [discrepancies: type I trace; type II none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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