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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | India's workforce has fewer women than it did six years ago -Janaki Shibu and Rosa Abraham

India's workforce has fewer women than it did six years ago -Janaki Shibu and Rosa Abraham

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published Published on Jul 4, 2019   modified Modified on Jul 4, 2019
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Women earn between Rs 70 and Rs 80 for every Rs 100 that men earn.

India’s workforce has fewer women than it did six years ago: no more than 18% in rural areas are employed, compared to 25% in 2011-’12 and 14% in urban areas from 15% in 2011-’12. However, in urban areas, the percentage of women in salaried jobs has increased from 35.6% in 2004 to 52.1% in 2017, but continue to be under-represented compared to their presence in self-employed or casual work, according to an analysis of latest government employment data by researchers at the Azim Premji University.

Both men and women in rural and urban India are out of work, but there is a continuing decline of the number of women in the workforce, the latest government data, collected by the Periodic Labour Force Survey 2017-’18, found.

Four months after a leaked newsbreak of national employment data revealed that India’s current unemployment rate was at a 45-year high, the government released the official Periodic Labour Force Survey report on May 31.

Understanding the survey

The Periodic Labour Force Survey report, released after many controversies, provided quarterly estimates on labour market indicators by gender, education and caste. In 2017, the Periodic Labour Force Survey had replaced the National Sample Survey Office’s Employment Unemployment Survey that had been conducted every five years since 1972-’73.

The Periodic Labour Force Survey report compares current data with the National Sample Survey Office’s Employment Unemployment Survey, but the two differ in terms of methodology as well as the questions asked of the 433,339 persons surveyed in both rural and urban areas. Some argue that the two surveys remain broadly comparable, while others think it is like comparing apples to oranges.

While the sampling strategy has changed between the two surveys, statistical techniques ensure that the estimates of the National Sample Survey Office’s Employment Unemployment Survey and Periodic Labour Force Survey are comparable. Moreover, the broad questions used to capture labour force status remain unchanged between the surveys.

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Scroll.in/ India Spend, 3 July, 2019, https://scroll.in/article/929174/indias-workforce-has-fewer-women-than-it-did-six-years-ago?fbclid=IwAR1oPBpt0CM5bmrgNrS4Y-UenVWItjobV88iv00W0eFPsEW0ZvdmgxKEKts


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