India - Employment, Unemployment and Migration Survey: NSS 64th Round, Schedule 10, July 2007 - June 2008

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-64th-Sch10dot2-2007-2008

Year

2007 - 2008

Country

India

Producer(s)

National Sample Survey Office

Sponsor(s)

M/o Statistics & Programme Implementation, GOI - MOSPI -

Collection(s)

National Sample Survey

Metadata

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Mar 16, 2016

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Reason for migration (B31_c5)
File: Block-3dot1-out-migrants-records

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 2

Valid cases: 100235
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
01	In search of employment	10938	10.9%
02	In search of better employment	10432	10.4%
03	Business	1546	1.5%
04	To take up employment/better employment	20667	20.6%
05	Transfer of service/ contract	4892	4.9%
06	Proximity to place of work	485	0.5%
07	Studies	4356	4.3%
08	Natural disaster (drought, flood, tsunami, etc.)	20	0.0%
10	Social/political problems (riots, terrorism, political refugee, bad law and order, etc.)	74	0.1%
11	Displacement by development project	18	0.0%
12	Acquisition of own house/flat	266	0.3%
13	Housing problems	265	0.3%
14	Health care	46	0.0%
15	Post retirement	19	0.0%
16	Marriage	32623	32.5%
17	Migration of parent/earning member of the family	12465	12.4%
19	Others;	1123	1.1%

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

For each out-migrant, the reason for migration will be ascertained and recorded in codes. This reasons for migration of the out-migrants is to be recorded in terms of the following codes