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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Reconceptualising Women’s Work in the the National Sample Survey -Santosh Mehrotra

Reconceptualising Women’s Work in the the National Sample Survey -Santosh Mehrotra

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published Published on Aug 4, 2022   modified Modified on Aug 26, 2022

-The India Forum

A good approach to build a new framework for measuring women’s work better is for the National Statistical Office to accept the definitions and categories recommended in 2013 by the 19th International Conference of Labour Statisticians.

The female labour force participation rate of women (LFPR) in India is one of the lowest in the world, and falling. It is even lower than that in neighbouring countries. The reasons for this have been analysed extensively (Mehrotra and Parida 2017; Mehrotra and Sinha 2017; among others).

Jose (2021) pointed out that educated women find it difficult to find employment. This has much to do with employment growth remaining low generally, so women tend to fall behind. From the higher secondary level onwards, the unemployment rate of women is at least 50% or more, twice the corresponding ratio for men. Jose even suggests that the figures indicate that any advancement of women’s schooling is likely to be accompanied by a higher incidence of unemployment among them, unless, of course, more jobs are created.

However, here we ask: could there also be issues with the way the National Statistical Office (NSO) measures female LFPR?

For more than 30 years, key economic indicators have been based on a framework adopted at the 13th International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS) in 1982. Within this framework, individuals were employed, unemployed, or economically inactive. With time, it became clear that these categories, and their accompanying definitions, were insufficient to fully capture how individuals — women in particular — contributed to the economy or the well-being of their households.

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The India Forum, 4 August, 2022, https://www.theindiaforum.in/article/reconceptualising-womens-work-national-sample-survey


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