National Sample Survey 2005-2006 (62nd round) - Schedule 10 - Employment and Unemployment

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 and Senior Superintendent 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, will be recorded in item 4 in whole number of 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 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, type of ration card possessed, monthly household consumer expenditure, etc. will be recorded in this block.

Block 4: Demographic particulars of household members: This block is meant to record the demographic particulars like sex, age, marital status, educational level, current attendance in educational institution, receipt of vocational training, etc., of the household members. For the rural areas, provision has also been made, in this block, to collect data on participation of the household members of age 15 years and above in public works.

Block 5: Usual activity particulars of household members: The usual principal activity particulars as well as usual subsidiary activity particulars of each member of the household will be collected in this block. This will include information on activity status of the household members and industry of work and occupation for working members. The particulars of usual activity are collected with reference to a period of 365 days preceding the date of survey.

Block 6: 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 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.