[Question 20 to 24 were asked of persons who have ever worked, as per question 19]

25. Secondary economic activity (for all codes 1 through 8 in column 19)

These questions should be asked of all persons irrespective of age. These columns relate to the economic characteristics of population, both male and female. Information is proposed to be collected on economic characteristics of population. Economically active population includes those who are employed and unemployed (including those available for work or seeking work). Economically inactive population includes home makers; full time students; dependents; rent-receivers, retired people and other categories of income recipients; and others who are neither employed nor unemployed and also do not come under any of the inactive categories mentioned. The reference period for this is the one year or 12 months before the survey night, that is from 4 March 2012 to 3 March 2013. This is also referred to as last year or last one year in this instruction manual.

74. Columns 20 to 24

Information in these columns should be filled-in only for a person who is employed (Code 1 in column 19) or unemployed (employed before) i.e. Code 2 in column 19. For unemployed (not employed before) i.e. Code 3 in column 19 and inactive population i.e. any code from 4 to 8 in column 19, no information can be furnished in columns 20 to 24 and hence enter dash (-) in each of these columns for these persons. Following are the instructions for filling-in columns 20 to 24 for a person for whom code 1 or 2 is given in column 19. The information to be filled-in will relate to employment details of the employed person (Code 1 in column 19). In the case of unemployed (employed before) i.e. Code 2 in column 19, the information to be filled-in will relate to last employment held by that person.

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80. General instructions for filling-in economic questions 19 to 24

It will be useful to discuss with each person, questions covering 19 to 24. Together and fill in the details. Example: if you are interviewing a woman who says she is selling vegetable by herself in the market, find out how many months she worked last year. She may say that she worked throughout the year. Now you can record for her as follows: 1 in column 19, 12 in column 20, "vegetable seller" in column 21, 3 in columns 22, "Retail Vegetable Trade" in column 24.

81.1 Please note again that if you have given code 1 in column 19 for a person, you have to fill in columns 20 to 24. If you have recorded code 2 in columns 20 for a person you have to fill in columns 20 to 24 for

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his last employment. If you have recorded any of the code 3 to 8 for a person in columns 20, you have to put a dash (-) in columns 21 to 24.

81. Column 25: secondary economic activity

81.1 This column has to be filled-in for all persons with one of the codes 1 to 8 in col. 19. The purpose of this column is to find out whether the person who was mainly economically active or inactive last year had a second job or a secondary economic activity last year which gave him/her additional income or some income in cash or kind.

Please note that the activity recorded in this column constitutes the secondary activity in the case of those who were mainly employed last year (code 1 in column 19). In respect of others (codes 2 to 8 in column 19) it constitutes their marginal activity last year.

A commune chief (or village chief) might have also participated in work in his own farm for some time. His/her main activity is commune administration (or village administration) and secondary activity is unpaid employment in farming. A woman who was a home maker most of the time (Code 4 in col. 19) could have assisted in farming as an unpaid family worker in her spare time. Her secondary economic activity was unpaid employment in farming. A girl might have been mainly a student. You would have given her Code 5 in col.19 to earn some money she might work in a house as a maid during her spare time. Her secondary economic activity was maid. A youth who was studying in school might work as a security guard in the night and earn money. His secondary activity was security guard. You have to accept whatever is returned as the person's secondary economic activity.

81.2 If a person had more than one secondary economic activity during last year you have to ascertain in which job he/she spent more time and that job should be considered as his/her secondary economic activity. For example a person whose main activity last year was farming might have worked as seller of fruits for some time and as a construction worker some other time. You should ask the person to tell in which he/she spent more time. That constitutes his/her secondary activity. It is not necessary that every person should have had a secondary economic activity. Hence some respondents may answer "No" to this question.

81.3 Having ascertained the information, you have to record the answer in terms of a code from the list of codes for col. 25 given below the column. If the person says he had no secondary job or economic activity record code 01 (None).

81.4 Give code 02 if he/she had worked additionally in farming (i.e. cultivation) without receiving any payment. Code 03 has to be given if he/she was a wage earner working in a farm. Code 04 should be given for a person with unpaid employment in animal rearing/production (cattle, pig, poultry etc.). Code 5 should be given for one in paid employment in animal rearing/production. Code 6 will be given for one in fishing (in land or marine).

81.5 Code 07 will be given for a person who had worked or rendered service in any other household based industry producing or servicing any good (both unpaid and paid in cash or kind). Examples are: weaving, pottery, stitching, processing food articles or food items for sale, processing corn and other food crops, drying fish for sale etc. which are carried out at home in which mostly household members are engaged. In rural areas this may be done outside the residence of the household also for want of space e.g. court yard.

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81.6 Code 8 will be given for one in construction activities (buildings, structures, bridges, roads, paddy dike etc.). Code 9 has to be given for any wholesale or retail trade run within or outside the household. Code 10 is for a worker in transport services. Examples of this are cyclo drivers, moto drivers, Tuk Tuk drivers etc. Code 11 is intended for all other paid employment (other than household-based employment).

81.7 Please note that the secondary economic activity has to be recorded in col. 25, only if it is a second job or economic activity. For instance if a person was cultivating in his farm and that was his main activity last year and he did not get any supplementary income (cash or kind) from any other economic activity, he did not have secondary economic activity and code to be given is 1.