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Government of India

Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation

National Sample Survey Office

 

 

PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN IN SPECIFIED ACTIVITIES ALONG WITH DOMESTIC DUTIES 2009-2010 [February 2013]

http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/nss_report_550.pdf

[full-text, 176 pages]

 

HIGHLIGHTS

This report is based on the eighth quinquennial survey on employment and unemployment

conducted in the 66th round of NSS during July 2009 to June 2010. The survey was spread

over 7402 villages and 5252 urban blocks covering 100957 households (59129 in rural

areas and 41828 in urban areas) and enumerating 459784 persons (281327 in rural areas

and 178457 in urban areas). Employment and Unemployment indicators are measured in

three different approaches, viz. usual status (US) with a reference period of one year,

current weekly status (CWS) with one week reference period and current daily status

(CDS) based on the daily activity pursued during each day of the reference week. A set of

probing questions was put to all the members of the households classified as engaged in

domestic duties according to the usual principal status regarding their participation in a set

of specified activities. As per the classification of activity statuses, persons with activity

status codes 92 (attended domestic duties only) and 93 (attended domestic duties and were

also engaged in free collection of goods, sewing, tailoring, weaving, etc. for household

use) were considered to be engaged in domestic duties. Some of the key findings of NSS

66th round (July, 2009 - June, 2010) survey obtained from the responses to the probing

questions that were put to the women are stated below.

 

 During 2009-2010, about 40 per cent of rural females were engaged in domestic

duties - about 22 per cent with activity status 92 and about 18 per cent with activity

status 93. During this period, about 48 per cent of urban females were engaged in

domestic duties - about 40 per cent with activity status 92 and about 8 per cent with

activity status 93.

 

 Among women of age 5 years and above, about 6 per cent in the rural areas and 2

per cent in the urban areas were engaged in domestic duties in the principal status

but were worker according to the usual subsidiary status.

 

 Among women of age 5 years and above usually engaged in domestic duties in

terms of their principal and subsidiary statuses taken together, about 56 per cent in

rural areas and 19 per cent in urban areas pursued one or more of the activities

relating to (i) agricultural production such as the maintenance of kitchen garden,

work in household poultry, dairy, etc., including free collection of agricultural

products for household consumption and (ii) processing of primary products

produced by the households, for households' consumption. They constituted about

21.2 per cent of women of age 5 years and above in rural areas and 9.5 per cent of

those in urban areas. In respect of women of all ages, about 19.2 per cent in rural

areas and about 8.8 per cent in urban areas pursued one or more of the activities

under categories (i) and (ii) and were not considered as workers.

 

 The Worker Population Ratio (WPR) for women, according to the usual status

(considering both principal activity and subsidiary activity), in rural and urban

areas were 26.1 per cent and 13.8 per cent, respectively. If all women usually

engaged in economic activity, irrespective of their intensity of participation and

even considering those included within the extended production boundary

according to SNA-2008, are to be considered to be 'workers' to arrive at an

approximate upper bound to the usual status women 'workers', then 19.2 per cent

in rural areas and 8.8 per cent in urban areas, could be added to the usual status

worker population ratio for women. This gives that the upper bound of the WPR of

women is 45.3 per cent in rural areas and 22.6 per cent in urban areas.

 

 Of the women of age 15 years and above usually engaged in domestic duties, about

33 per cent in rural areas and about 27 per cent in urban areas reported their

willingness to accept work if the work was made available at their household

premises. They constituted about 19.1 per cent and about 17.5 per cent of the

women of age 15 years and above in rural and urban India, respectively.

 

 The kind of work that was most preferred by the women who were willing to

accept work at their household premises was tailoring in both the rural and urban

areas. Among women of age 15 years and above, about 10 per cent in rural areas

and about 11 per cent in urban areas were willing to accept the work of tailoring at

their household premises.

 

 Among the women of age 15 years and above reported willingness to accept work

at the household premises, about 93 per cent in rural areas and about 95 per cent in

urban areas preferred work on regular basis. About 70 per cent in rural areas and

about 69 per cent in urban areas preferred 'part- time' work on a regular basis

while about 23 per cent in rural areas and about 26 per cent in urban areas wanted

regular 'full-time' work.

 

 Among women of age 15 years and above willing to accept work at the household

premises, about 43 per cent in rural areas and about 30 per cent in urban areas

reported the need of initial finance on easy terms to take up their desired work.

 

 

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