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Title: ENGENDERMENT LABOUR FORCE SURVEYS: INDIAN EXPERIENCE Dr' S'K'Nath CSOINDIA


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ENGENDERMENT LABOUR FORCE SURVEYSINDIAN
EXPERIENCEDr. S.K.NathCSO-INDIA
2
MEN AND WOMEN OLD THEORY
  • WOMEN WOMEN
  • LADY LADY
  • MADAM MADAM
  • DO WE BELIVE THIS THEORY THAT WOMEN HAS TO
    DEPEND ON MAN ?
  • NO MORE MEN AND WOMEN SAY
  • WOMEN AND MEN

3
  • It is important to walk a mile in another
    persons shoes. As it possible to grow up in the
    same family, neighbourhood, school And yet have
    totally different experiences depending on
    whether you are a man or a woman
  • - Retd. Supreme Court of
    Canada

4
WHY ENGENDERING STATISTICS
  • What is the opinion of Statisticians
  • What is the opinion of Gender specialists
  • What is the opinion of Civil Societies
  • What is the opinion of Policy makers

5
HOW TO ENGENDER
  • Re-engineering of Surveys
  • Use of effective tools
  • Study the societal needs
  • Positive outlook in developing Data Tabulation
    Policy
  • Look at Gender Blind data and make their
    effective use through appropriate Data Analysis

6
PROBLEM OF ENGENDERING
  • Lack of understanding
  • Lack of Vision
  • Deliberate avoidance
  • Misleading arguments

7
HOW TO OVERCOME PROBLEM
  • Evidences
  • Appropriate advocacy
  • Marketing Ideas
  • Taking appropriate assistance ( from whom ?)
  • Let us see how India overcome this problem

8
LABOUR FORCE SURVEYS IN INDIA
  • THE FIRST LFS WAS CONDUCTED IN 1955 (May
    September)
  • QUINQUENNIAL SURVEYS STARTED IN 1972-73
  • LAST SUCH SURVEY WAS CONDUCTED IN 2004-05
  • EMPLOYMENT STATUS USUAL STATUS, WEEKLY STATUS
    AND CURRECT STATUS

9
Survey Design
  • Multistage Sampling with area frame
  • Villages / Urban blocks ( with various town
    classes) are FSU
  • Households are the SSU
  • About 0.14 million households selected and
    surveys in four subrounds with two sub samples
    each.

10
SYSTEM FOLLOWED CONSULTATION
  • DECISION MAKING PROCESS GOVERNING COUNCIL ( now
    called Steering Group )
  • REPRESENTATION OF NONOFFICIAL MEMBERS- professors
    and civil societies
  • DETAILED CONSULTATION PROCESS THROUGH
    BRAINSTORMING SESSIONS
  • WORKING GROUP ON LFS WORKS ON METHODOLOGY AND
    SCHEDULE OF ENQUIRY AND TABULATION POLICY
  • WORKING GROUPS ARE ALSO REPRESENTED BY OFFICIAL
    AND NON-OFFICIAL EXPERTS

11
DATA SYSTEM SINCE INCEPTION
  • SEX-SEGGREAGTED DATA ARE AVAILABLE ACCORDING
    TO
  • A) STATES / UTs PLUS URBAN/RURAL
  • MPCE CLASSES
  • AGE-GROUPS
  • SOCIAL CLASSIFICATORY VARIABLES
  • JOB STATUS ETC.
  • ISIC / ISCO CLASSIFICATION
  • LAND POSSESSED
  • ETC.

12
SENSATISATION OF GENDER ISSUES RECENT
DEVELOPMENTS
  • ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON GENDER STATISTICS
    NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL
  • IMPORTANCE OF INFORMAL SECTOR
  • BEIJING PLATFORM OF ACTION
  • IMPLEMENTATION OF PLAN OF ACTION AS PER FOLLOW UP
    OF NATIONAL ACTION PLAN (NPA)
  • IMPORTANCE OF UNPAID WORK
  • KATHMANDU DECLARATION

13
MAJOR ENGENDERMENT PROCESS
  • COLLECTION OF DATA ON DOMESTIC DUTIES PERFORMED
    WITHIN HOUSEHOLD
  • CONDUCT OF TIME USE STATISTICS
  • COLLECTION OF DATA ON PLACE OF WORK
  • CONDUCT OF INFORMAL SECTOR SURVEY IN
    NON-AGRICULTURE SECTOR

14
Data on Economic Activity
  • All the market activities performed for pay or
    profit which resulted in production of goods and
    services for exchange
  • Non-market activities not covered under WPR

15
Non-market Primary Sector
  • All activities relating to the primary
    sector (Div 01 to 14 of ISIC 3.1) which resulted
    in production ( including free collection of
    uncultivated crops, forestry, firewood, hunting,
    fishing, mining, quarrying etc.) of primary goods
    for own consumption

16
Non-market Own Account Production of fixed
Assets
  • Activities relating to the own-account
    production of fixed asset (Own-account production
    of fixed assets included construction of own
    houses, roads, wells etc., and of machinery,
    tools etc., for household enterprise and also
    construction of any private or community
    facilities free of charge. A person may have been
    engaged in own-account construction in the
    capacity of either a labourer or a supervisor.)

17
KATHMANDU DECLARATION
  • Resolution of the South Asian Meeting on Women
    Workers in the Informal Economy Sector 18-20
    October 2000
  • There are at least 50 million home based
    workers in South Asia out of whom around 80 are
    women. They include own account or self employed
    workers as well as those who do work for
    contractors at piece rate. 

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Discussions of Home Worker
  • POLITICAL WILL PLAYED AN IMPORTANT ROLE
  • Issue was discussed at length with non-official
    experts and observed that Indian data system do
    not make Home Based Worker fully visible
  • Visibility of Home Worker in the data system does
    not necessarily engender system since home
    workers are outworkers which are not
    necessarily gender sensitive

19
India initiatives
  • SAARC Gender data-shop with UNIFEM
  • CSO formed of Independent Group with UNIFEM
  • Involving a number of non-official members
    including women groups.
  • ( SEWA and Other Civil Societies )

20
Key issues for defining HBWs
  • Debated on three consecutive meetings
  • Should we adopt extended definition of HW ?
  • Will it be Gender responsive ?
  • Worked on existing data on self employment
  • CSO views
  • Involved in the production of goods and
    services, in their home for the market and
  • Work in their home for remuneration, resulting
    in a product or service as specified by the
    employer(s)

21
Outcome
  • Conceived an agreed upon definition pending
    its testing in the field by re-engineering the
    LFS schedule of enquiry
  • This initiative may bring a sea change in
    engendering the Labour Force Survey .
  • Gender responsive Labour Force data on
    informal sector will help in making policy
    decision regarding several pro-informal sector,
    having 90 employment ) measures like social
    security for which a High Power Commission is
    looking into the problem.

22
DATA DISSEMINATION
  • Women and Men in India
  • Micro-data are put on public domain immediately
    after release of data

23
  • Thanks
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