Interviewer instructions
Column 18: Current weekly status: Based on the activity status obtaining for a person on the seven days of the reference week, the current weekly status is to be identified and the status code so obtained is to be recorded here. This will be done as follows.
As already explained the activity status of a person falls into one of three broad categories, viz. employed (any of codes 11-72), unemployed (any of codes 81 or 82) and out of labour force (any of codes 91-98). The activity status for any day of the seven days is recorded in column 4. If any of these is a work related activity code, i.e., any of 11 to 72, the person will fall in the employed category on the current weekly status. In other words, if the person is found to have been assigned a work status code on any of the day of the last week he will be considered as working in the current weekly status. For assigning the unemployed status code (i.e., either 81 or 82) to a person as his weekly activity status code, the person should not have had any work activity status codes on any of the days of the last week but should have one of codes 81 or 82 on at least one day of the last week (i.e., the entry in column 4 should not be any of 11-72 but should be 81 or 82 against one of the serial nos. of activity). Persons without any of codes 11-82 in column 4 will be those who will be treated as out of labour force in the current weekly status.
Further, within the three broad activity status categorisation, the detailed activity status codes will be assigned taking into account the number of days in each activity recorded in column 14 in terms of the aggregate of intensities obtaining on various days. Within the broad activity status category identified for a person, the activity status code in column 4, which has the highest value in column 14, corresponding to a serial number of activity within the broad activity status, will be recorded in column 18. The entries for column 18 will be made in the line corresponding to the first line for each person, i.e., the line in which serial no. of activity in col. 3 is 1.
