National Sample Survey 2007-2008 (64th round) - Schedule 10.2 - Employment, Unemployment and Migration Particulars

Block 0: Descriptive identification of sample household: This block is meant for recording descriptive identification particulars of the sample household and the sample village/ block to which the sample household belongs. All the items in this block are self-explanatory. Items 4 and 5 are applicable to rural areas only and a dash ‘-’ will be put against this item in urban schedule. The name of the hamlet to which the sample household belongs will be recorded against the fifth item ‘hamlet name’. On the other hand, for a sample village with no hamlet group formation, a dash (-) is to be recorded against this item. Item 6 is applicable to urban areas only and a dash (-) will be put against this item in rural schedules. The entry against the last item, viz., ‘name of informant’, will be the name of the principal informant, i.e., the person from whom the bulk of the information is collected.

Block 1: Identification of sample household: The identification particulars of the sample household are to be recorded against items 1, 4 to 15. The entries against items 2 and 3 are already printed in the schedule. Items 1 and 4-12 will be copied from the relevant items of block 1 of Schedule 0.0.

Block 2: Particulars of field operations: The identity of the investigator/ senior investigator, superintendent/senior superintendent, other supervisory officer associated, date of survey/ inspection/ scrutiny of schedules, despatch, etc., will be recorded in this block against the appropriate items in the relevant columns. Person codes of field officials are to be recorded against item 1(ii) (for central sample only). If the schedule is required to be canvassed for more than one day, the first day of survey is to be recorded against the item serial number 2 (i). Total time taken to canvass schedule 10.2, which will include time taken to canvass block 7 also, will be recorded in item 4. Time taken to canvass block 7 only will be recorded against item 5. Entries in items 4 and 5 will be made in whole number in minutes. The time required to canvass the schedule should be the actual time to canvass the schedule and will not include the time needed by the investigator/ senior investigator to finalise the schedule.

Block 3: Household characteristics: Certain household characteristics, such as, household size, household type, religion, social group, household industry, household occupation, land possessed, migration particulars of the households which migrated to the place of enumeration during the last 365 days, amount of remittances received and use of remittances by those households from which there were some out-migrants any time in the past and monthly household consumer expenditure, etc., will be recorded in this block. The detailed procedure for recording them are given below.

Block 3.1: Particulars of out-migrants who migrated out any time in the past: In this block particulars of the out-migrants, who migrated out any time in the past will be collected, i.e., this block will be filled in for those households which had entry 1 in item 12 of block 3. The details of all the male out-migrants and female out-migrants from the household, as recorded in items 13 and 14 of block 3 will be collected in this block 3.1.

Block 4: Demographic and usual activity particulars of household members: This block is meant to record the demographic particulars like sex, age, marital status, educational level for each of the member of the household. Besides, in this block usual principal activity particulars as well as usual subsidiary activity particulars of each member of the household will be collected. This will include information on activity status of the household members and industry of work and occupation for working members. The description of the items and the procedure for recording them are explained in the following paragraphs.

Block 5: Time disposition of household members during the week: This block is meant for recording the time disposition of the household members in various activities on all the 7 days preceding the date of survey, the current weekly status based on the 7 days time disposition, wage and salary earnings during the week, etc. Time disposition will be recorded for every member of the household listed in block 4. This involves recording of different activities pursued by the members along with the time intensity in quantitative terms for each day of the reference week. The different activities will be identified and recorded in terms of 'status' and 'industry' codes for persons in urban areas and 'status', 'industry' and 'operation' codes for persons in rural areas. The time intensity will be measured in half-day units. Since a person may be engaged in more than one type of activity on a single day, (in which case two such activities will be considered for that day) and different activities may be carried out on different days of the week, more than one line have been provided for each person in this block to record information on different activity particulars which have been carried out by the person in the week in separate lines.

Block 6: Migration particulars of household members: This block is meant for collecting information on the migration particulars of the household members, such as nature of movement, period since leaving last usual place of residence (upr), particulars of last upr, usual activity status at the time of migration, reason for leaving last upr and information on return migration. Besides, for the household members, who had stayed away from the household for employment or in search of employment for a period of 1 month to 6 months, information will be collected on the number of ‘spells’ of continuous stay away of 15 days or more, ‘destination’ during the longest spell and if worked, ‘industry of work’, at 2-digit level of NIC-2004, for the longest duration of work.

Block 7: Household consumer expenditure: Household consumer expenditure is the sum total of monetary values of all goods and services consumed (out of purchase or procured otherwise) by the household on domestic account during a specific reference period. The definition of household consumer expenditure and the procedure for evaluating it will be the same as for Schedule 1.0. Though instructions for filling in this block are given below, the detailed instructions, if required, may be seen in Chapter Five for Schedule 1.0.

This block has been designed to collect information on household consumer expenditure with the aim to arrive at an approximate value of household consumer expenditure, which will serve as proxy for total expenditure that could be obtained through the detailed consumer expenditure Schedule (Schedule 1.0). This approximate value of consumer expenditure would be used for classifying sample households into different levels of living for studying employment and migration characteristics of households in different levels of living. This block contains 19 different components of household consumer expenditure. Considering that an item group may contain different items, an attempt has been made to indicate, in parenthesis, some of the items included in a particular group, so as to facilitate collection of consumer expenditure data for an item group. Two reference periods, viz,. 30 days and 365 days, will be used to record consumption of different groups of items and those are indicated in the headings of columns 3 and 4. To ensure that not much time is taken in canvassing this block, all the items of Schedule 1.0 have been grouped in 19 items of this block. Investigators should not spend too much time for collecting information in this block. Unless the respondents themselves seek clarifications, investigators need not ask about quantities consumed item by item to arrive at sub-total figure.

Sources of consumption: A household procures different items for its consumption by different ways. The different ways of collecting items of consumption are:
1) purchase
2) receipt in exchange of goods and services
3) home-grown/home-produced stock
4) transfer receipts such as gifts, loans, charities, etc., and
5) free collection

Imputation of value: If an item is purchased and consumed by a household, the value of consumption can be taken as its purchase value. But, the value of an item consumed out of commodities received in exchange of goods and services, home-grown/home-produced stock, transfer receipts or free collection requires imputation. The rule for imputation of value of consumption of commodities is given below:
1) the value of goods received in exchange of goods and services will be imputed at the rate of average local retail prices prevailing during the reference period. However, the judgement of the respondent about the price of the goods purchased in exchange is to be taken into account;
2) the value of home-produce will be imputed at the ex-farm or ex-factory rate. This should not include any element of distributive service charges;
3) the value of consumption out of gifts, loans, free collection, etc., will be imputed at the average local retail prices prevailing during the reference period;
4) the value of consumption out of purchase will be the value at which the purchase was made.

Special care is to be taken to ensure that the items which are consumed by the household out of home grown stock as well as from other sources like free collection, gifts, loans, etc., do not get missed out and necessary probing is to be done to include such consumption, if any, in the total consumption of the household.