National Sample Survey 2007-2008 (64th round) - Schedule 10.2 - Employment, Unemployment and Migration Particulars
India, 2007 - 2008
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IND_2007_NSS64-SCH10.2_v01_M
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Use of remittances - third code (S10B3_v16c)
Data file: NSS64_Sch10_bk_3
Overview
Valid:
17313
Invalid:
108265
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
19
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
83
End:
84
Width:
2
Range:
-
Format:
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| 1 | For household consumer expenditure on food items |
| 2 | Education of household members |
| 3 | Household durable |
| 4 | Marriage and other ceremonies |
| 5 | Health care |
| 6 | Others items on household consumer expenditure |
| 7 | For improving housing condition (major repairs, purchase of land and buildings, etc.) |
| 8 | Debt repayment |
| 10 | Financing working capital |
| 11 | Initiating new entrepreneurial activity |
| 12 | Saving/investment |
| 19 | Others |
| Sysmiss |
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
Item 16: Use of remittances: This item relates to how the remittances, received by the household, were used. In some cases, remittances received and income/ receipts of the household from other resources may be merged together and may be used by the household for any purposes. As such it becomes difficult, in those cases, to distinguish the use to which the remittances are put from the use to which other receipts of the household are put. Still the household should be able to identify some categories, among those listed in code list for this item, on which expenditure has been made possible by the remittances or on which expenditure has been increased to some extent due to the remittances. Provision has been made to record at most 3 such ‘uses’ of remittances, in codes, in the descending order of the amount used. If an equal amount was spent on two or more of the items listed in the code list, the code appearing first in the code list will be considered for making entry.
For assigning codes 01 to 06, the definition of household consumer expenditure and the procedure for evaluating it, as in Schedule 1.0 (Consumer Expenditure), may be used. If the remittances, were used for other purposes, codes 07 to 08, 11 to 12 and 19, as the case may be, will be recorded.
Since, at most 3 codes for ‘use of remittances’ may be applicable for each household, 3 rows have been provided in item 16. The entry may be made starting from the top-most cell. For example, a household may have received an amount of Rs. 20000 as remittances during the last 365 days and of the amount received, the household may have spent Rs. 10000 on food items for household consumer expenditure, Rs. 3000 on education of children, Rs. 4000 for debt repayment, and an amount of Rs. 3000 for health care. In this situation the entries in the rows against item 16 will be the codes 01, 08 and 02 in the rows provided.
For assigning codes 01 to 06, the definition of household consumer expenditure and the procedure for evaluating it, as in Schedule 1.0 (Consumer Expenditure), may be used. If the remittances, were used for other purposes, codes 07 to 08, 11 to 12 and 19, as the case may be, will be recorded.
Since, at most 3 codes for ‘use of remittances’ may be applicable for each household, 3 rows have been provided in item 16. The entry may be made starting from the top-most cell. For example, a household may have received an amount of Rs. 20000 as remittances during the last 365 days and of the amount received, the household may have spent Rs. 10000 on food items for household consumer expenditure, Rs. 3000 on education of children, Rs. 4000 for debt repayment, and an amount of Rs. 3000 for health care. In this situation the entries in the rows against item 16 will be the codes 01, 08 and 02 in the rows provided.
Description
Definition
Remittances are the transfers, in either cash or kind, to the households by their former members who had migrated out. For the purpose of this survey, the former household members who had migrated out any time in the past, will only be considered and the transfers by them during the last 365 days will be treated as remittances. However, if such transfers are in the form of loans, these will not be considered as remittances. The valuation of the remittances received in kind will be done by considering the market value of the kind received by the household. If the cash remittances are in any foreign currency, exchange value of the cash remittances in Indian Rupee may be arrived at to determine the amount of remittances. It is, moreover, to be noted that amount of remittances may be arrived at considering both the remittances received through formally recorded channels as well as remittances sent through informal channels.