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Socio-Economic Survey, Household Schedule 10: Employment and Unemployment July, 1987-June, 1988 - IPUMS Subset

India, 1987 - 1988
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IND_1987_NSS43-SCH10_v01_M_v03_A_IPUMS
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National Sample Survey Organization, Government of India, Minnesota Population Center
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Distance to place of work (IN1987A_0426)

Data file: IND1987-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 175
End: 176
Width: 2
Range: -
Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question
13. Place of work:

Same village/town:


[] 1 Distance less than 5 kilometers
[] 2 Distance 5-20 kilometers
[] 3 Distance 20 kilometers and above


Another village:


[] 4 Distance less than 5 kilometers
[] 5 Distance 5-20 kilometers
[] 6 Distance 20 kilometers and above


Another town:


[] 7 Distance less than 5 kilometers
[] 8 Distance 5-20 kilometers
[] 9 Distance 20 kilometers and above
Categories
Value Category
1 Same village/town less than 5 km
2 Same village/town 5-20 km
3 Same village/town 20 km or more
4 Another village less than 5 km
5 Another village 5-20 km
6 Another village 20 km or more
7 Another town less than 5 km
8 Another town 5-20 km
9 Another town 20 km or more
98 Unknown
99 NIU (not in universe)
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
5.6.8 Column (13): Place of work: For all persons assigned work status codes, i.e., codes 11-51 in column (2), information on their usual places of work vis-à-vis their places of stay will be collected and recorded in this column in terms of the specified codes. For a sample, a person staying in a village may be working in the same village or in another village or in a town and that also for different persons, the distance to be computed may be different. Similarly, a person staying in a town may be working in the same town, another town or in a village. According to the situation obtaining for each relevant person and also taking into consideration the distance to be commuted, the appropriate code will be decided and recorded. The codes are:

Same village/town: distance:

less than 5 km. - 1
5 - 20 km. - 2
20 km. and above - 3

Another village: distance:

less than 5 km. - 4
5 - 20 km. - 5
20 km. and above - 6

Another town: distance:

less then 5 km. - 7
5 - 20 km. - 8
20 km. and above - 9

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the distance from the person's home to place of employment.
Universe
Persons age 5+ who usually worked

concept

Concept
Name Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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