Special Seminar by NLS Faculty Vijayambar R | ‘Understanding Women’s Participation in Economic Activities through Time Use Surveys’
April 25, 2025
NLS Faculty Dr. Vijayamba R delivered a seminar on ‘Understanding Women’s Participation in Economic Activities through Time Use Surveys’ at the School of Economics and Public Policy, RV University, on Thursday, April 24, 2025.
Abstract
Women’s underestimation in economic activities is a long standing problem in official statistics in India. Unlike the labour force surveys, time-use surveys (TUS) collect information on different activities without asking the respondent to report as a worker or not. They provide data on the time spent on various activities throughout the day. This lecture provided an overview of time use surveys in India, and presented some interesting numbers on women’s participation in economic activities and the time spent using TUS 2019 and TUS 2024. Using the recently released Time Use Survey 2024 data, estimates found that 35 per cent of the rural women are engaged in economic activity. They were posed against the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) 2024 numbers and reasons for the differences between the two sources were explored.
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