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 leaving the last upr code (B6_c16)
File: Block-6-members-migration-records

Overview

Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 2

Valid cases: 168524
Invalid: 0

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
01	In search of employment	4974	3.0%
02	In search of better employment	7288	4.3%
03	Business	1458	0.9%
04	To take up employment / better employment	6668	4.0%
05	Transfer of service/ contract	3996	2.4%
06	Proximity to place of work	872	0.5%
07	Studies	2875	1.7%
08	Natural disaster (drought, flood, tsunami, etc.)	337	0.2%
10	Social / political problems (riots, terrorism, political refugee, bad law and order, etc.	976	0.6%
11	Displacement by development project	188	0.1%
12	Acquisition of own house/ flat	1716	1.0%
13	Housing problems	1183	0.7%
14	Health care	380	0.2%
15	Post retirement	629	0.4%
16	Marriage	99698	59.2%
17	Migration of parent/earning member of the family	30596	18.2%
19	Others;	4690	2.8%

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 person who had changed the last upr, the reason for doing so will be ascertained and recorded in terms of codes in this column. Only the reason for leaving the last upr will be considered.