Title: ENGENDERMENT LABOUR FORCE SURVEYS: INDIAN EXPERIENCE Dr' S'K'Nath CSOINDIA
1ENGENDERMENT 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
4WHY 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
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5HOW 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
6PROBLEM OF ENGENDERING
- Lack of understanding
- Lack of Vision
- Deliberate avoidance
- Misleading arguments
7HOW TO OVERCOME PROBLEM
- Evidences
- Appropriate advocacy
- Marketing Ideas
- Taking appropriate assistance ( from whom ?)
- Let us see how India overcome this problem
8LABOUR 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
9Survey 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.
10SYSTEM 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
11DATA 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.
12SENSATISATION 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
13MAJOR 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
14Data 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
15Non-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
16Non-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.)
17KATHMANDU 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.
18Discussions 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
19India 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 )
20Key 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)
21Outcome
- 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.
22DATA DISSEMINATION
- Women and Men in India
- Micro-data are put on public domain immediately
after release of data
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