Interviewer instructions
4.3.0 Block 3: Household characteristics: Certain household characteristics, such as, household size, household type, religion, social-group, household industry, household occupation, monthly household consumer expenditure, number of members who got work for at least 60 days in public works during the last 365 days, land owned/ land possessed as on the date of survey, land cultivated (including orchard and plantation) during July 2003 - June 2004, etc., which are intended to be used mainly as classificatory characteristics in studying the indicators of employment and unemployment will be recorded in this block.
4.3.5 Item 4: Household type (code): For the rural areas, the selected household will be assigned appropriate type code out of the following five different household type codes:
1. Self-employed in non-agriculture
2. Agricultural labour
3. Other labour
4. Self-employed in agriculture
9. Others
For urban areas, the household type codes are as follows:
1. Self-employed
2. Regular wage/salary earning
3. Casual labour
9. Others
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4.3.6 The procedure for assigning household type codes for both rural and urban areas has been discussed in Chapter Three. A household, which does not have any income from economic activities, will get type code 9 (others).
