Interviewer instructions
5.3.4 Item 3: Type: At the listing stage, for the rural areas, all the households are assigned codes 1, 2 or 9 in column5 of block 6 (schedule 0.1) according to whether they belong to the three groups, namely (i) households self-employed in non-agriculture, (ii) rural labour household and (iii) other households, decided on the basis of their means of livelihood. But at the time of detailed enquiry (i.e. when schedules 10 and 1.0 will be canvassed in the sample households), each of the sample households will be assigned a 'type' code. Out of the following five different types code, the ones appropriate for the sample household will be chosen:
Self-employed in non-agriculture.1
Agricultural labour... 2
Other labour.......3
Self-employed in agriculture.....4
Others......9
The households categorized as belonging to the 'means of livelihood' code-1 in schedule 0.1 will be assigned the household type 'self-employed in non-agriculture' and code - 1 will be recorded against item 3 of block 3. The households listed as rural labour households in schedule 0.1, i.e. those assigned means of livelihood code 2 will be further classified into two groups - 'agricultural labour' households and 'other labour' households for assigning the appropriate household type codes against this them. The household to be categorized as the 'agricultural labour' households will be those which earned 50 p.c. or more of their total income (from gainful occupations) during the last 365 days from wage paid manual labour in agriculture and for such households, type code-2 will be recorded against this item. The remaining households will be categorized as 'other labour' households and for them code - 3 will be recorded. The households assigned the means of livelihood code-9 in schedule 0.1 , will be further regrouped into households 'self-employed in agricultural occupations' and 'other' households for assigned the appropriate household type codes. Households 'self-employed in agricultural occupations' will be those which earned 50 p.c. or more of their total income from self-employment in agricultural occupations during the last 365 days preceding the date of survey and for such households code-4 will be recorded against this item.
The remaining households will be grouped as 'other' households and for them code-9 will be recorded. Thus, the selected households will be grouped into five different household types for recording the relevant household type code against item 3 of this block. At the time of the detailed enquiry the means of livelihood code assigned at the listing stage will be verified and the code assigned at that time will be corrected, if found wrong. But no substitution of household is to be made in such cases.
5.3.5 A person will be treated as wage-paid manual labourer in agriculture or in the other words, agricultural labourer, if he/she follows one or more of the following agricultural occupations in the capacity of a labourer on hire or on exchange, whether paid wholly in cash or in kind or partly in cash and partly in kind:
a. Farming including cultivation and village of the soil, etc.,
b. Dairy farming,
c. Production, cultivation, growing and harvesting of any horticultural commodity,
d. Raising of livestock, bees or poultry, and
e. Any practice performed on a farm as incidental to or in conjunction with farm operations (including any forestry or timbering operations and the preparation for market and delivery to storage or to market or to carriage for transportation to market of farm production).
It may be noted that wage paid manual labour in 'fisheries' are excluded from the purview of the category 'agricultural labour'. Further, carriage for transportation will refer only to the first stage of the transportation from farm to the first place of disposal.
5.3.6 As regards the urban households, for recording the appropriate 'type' the 'means of livelihood' codes assigned in column (5), block 6 or schedule 0.2 will be copied against item 3 for the respective sample households. The codes to be used are:
Self employed....... 1
Regular wages/salary earning 2
Casual labour..... 3
Others........ 9
