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Time-Use Survey Report 2019: What Do We Learn About Rural Women? -Madhura Swaminathan

-Review of Agrarian Studies

In 2019, the National Statistical Office undertook India’s first-ever national time-use survey, the results of which have recently been published (GoI 2020). Time Use in India 2019 (henceforth, TUS19) provides information on time spent by men and women in rural and urban areas of all States in different activities during one full day. From such a survey, we should be able to gauge the time spent on a variety of activities – including employment, learning, rest, and cooking and cleaning. In this note, I focus on what we can learn from TUS19 about women and economic activity in rural India.1

The nature of economic activity in agrarian and informal economies – particularly among women – is such that work is often “scattered, intermittent, seasonal, temporary or unstable” (Hirway and Jose 2011). The borders between economic activity (that is, within the System of National Accounts (SNA) or production boundary) and other activity are blurred. Women are engaged in multiple activities, and regular labour-force surveys can make mistakes when assessing their activity status. One of the main objectives of a time-use survey is to record the details of all activity in order to better identify economic activity as well as household maintenance and care activities that are essential for social reproduction (or what is termed “extended SNA” in the literature). Data from a time-use survey taken together with labour-force survey data can be used to examine variations in time-use between seasons and across activities to understand the nature of unemployment. In sum, we look to a time-use survey to give a more accurate account of women’s work and employment in an economy such as that of India.

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