India - Time use survey: 1998

Reference ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-CSO-TUS-1998-99

Year

Country

India

Producer(s)

Central Statistical Organisation(CSO) - M/o Statistcs and Programme Implementation(MOSPI),Government of India (GOI)

Sponsor(s)

M/o Statistics & Programme Implementation, GOI - MOSPI -

Collection(s)

Other Surveys

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Nov 04, 2016

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Overview

Identification

Country

India

Title

Time use survey: 1998

Study Type

Other Household Survey

Series Information

Several scholars in India have experimented with small scale time use surveys covering a small number of villages and households. The prominent studies among these are (a) Time Allocation Study in some villages of Rajasthan and West Bengal by Jain and Chand (Jain and Chand 1982), (b) Time Allocation study in Tamil Nadu by Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Tamil Nadu (1996), (c) Time Use Study by NCAER in a few villages in (1980s) (d) a study on the Time Use of children by Ramesh Kanbargi in the survey and classification of activities. The study by Jain and Chand which is the most important of the studies. observed interesting results about the time use of women and showed that their participation in economic activities was higher than what is presented in the Population Census and National Sample Survey Statistics

Though these studies made interesting observations about the time use pattern of people in some micro situations, they had several methodological lacunas. Also, they could not present any results relevant at the regional/state/national level due to their small size and, therefore, could not be used either for correcting labour force statistics or national income statistics or for formulating macro policies in the economic and social fields.

ID Number

DDI-IND-MOSPI-CSO-TUS-1998-99

Version

Version Description

Production Date

2012-12-01

Overview

Abstract

To take care of the limitations of the earlier Time Use Studies in India and to meet the new emerging data requirements, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India, therefore, conducted a pilot Time Use Survey in 18620 households spread over six selected states , namely, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Orissa, Tamil Nadu and Meghalaya during the period July, 1998 to June, 1999.

Following were the main objectives of this survey:

1. To develop a conceptual framework and a suitable methodology for designing and conducting time use studies in India on a regular basis. Also, to evolve a methodology to estimate labour force/work force in the country and to estimate the value of unpaid work in the economy in a satellite account.

2. To infer policy/programme implications from the analysis of the data on (a) distribution of paid and unpaid work among men and women in rural and urban areas, (b) nature of unpaid work of women including the drudgery of their work and (c) sharing of household work by men and women for gender equity.

3. To analyze the time use pattern of the individuals to understand the nature of their work so as to draw inference for employment and welfare programmes for them.

4. To analyze the data of the time use pattern of the specific section of the population such as children and women to draw inferences for welfare policies for them.

5. To collect and analyze the time use pattern of people in the selected states in India in order to have a comprehensive information about the time spent by people on marketed and non-marketed economic activities covered under the 1993-SNA, non marketed non-SNA activities covered under the General Production Boundary and on personal care and related activities that cannot be delegated to others.

6. To use the data in generating more reliable estimates on work force and national income as per 1993 SNA, and in computing the value of unpaid work through separate satellite account,

Keeping in view the importance of the survey for India and our specific socio-economic situation similar to other developing countries, this survey was conducted using own financial, technical and manpower resources. Moreover, to ensure capacity building for conducting such surveys on a regular basis, this survey was conducted by utilizing the official statistical system machinery.

Kind of Data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Units of Analysis

Randomly selected households based on sampling procedure and members of the household

Scope

Notes

In this survey information were collected about the household size, possession of agricultural land, religion of the household, structure of the houses, head of households, etc thru Block-1 of the schedule.

Block-2 covered particulars regarding the age, sex, marital status, educational level, industrial and occupational characteristics of the members of the selected households were collected. As the activity pattern of the household members gets affected due to presence of a disabled member in the household. information about the presence of disabled member in the household was also collected. Similarly. on state level no good data are available about the extent of participation of women in the household decision making. With the present day emphasis on empowerment of women, this information is very vital. Therefore, an attempt was also made to enquire from females aged 18 years above whether they were participating in the decision making in the household. The participation was judged by considering"" their involvement in the purchase of durable consumer goods in the household.

Block-3 was devoted entirely for time Disposition of Persons on Selected Days of the Week

After careful consideration interviewing method rather than diary or observation method was adopted for collection of data . A reference period of one week was adopted for collecting the data. With a view to capture the variation in the activity pattern, data were collected for three types of days namely, normal, weekly variant and abnormal. Further, data for each type of these days were collected with a recall lapse of only one-day

Keywords

Time Use, Survey, 1998

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

Time Use Survey was conducted in 6 selected States namely, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Orissa, Tamil Nadu and Meghalaya.

Universe

The survey used the interview method of data collection from a sample of randomly selected households and members of the household

Producers and Sponsors

Primary Investigator(s)

Name	Affiliation
Central Statistical Organisation(CSO)	M/o Statistcs and Programme Implementation(MOSPI),Government of India (GOI)

Other Producer(s)

Name	Affiliation	Role
Social Statistics Division	M/o Statistcs and Programme Implementation(MOSPI),Government of India (GOI)	Survey organisier,co-ordination etc under the banner of CSO
Survey Design Reearch Division	National Sample Survey Office	Assisted in Questionnaire Desgn, Sampling methodology,Survey Reports
Data Processing Division	National Sample Survey Office	Assisted in sample selection, development of Data entry SW,scrutiny etc
Directorate of Economics & Stattistics	State Government	Field work
Computer Centre	M/o Statistcs and Programme Implementation(MOSPI),Government of India (GOI)	Data processing and Data Dissemination

Funding

Name	Abbreviation	Role
M/o Statistics & Programme Implementation, GOI	MOSPI

Other Acknowledgements

Name	Affiliation	Role
Technical committee	GOI	Finalisation of survey study and Questionnaire

Metadata Production

Metadata Produced By

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation	Role
Computer Centre	MOSPI, CC	M	Documentation of the study

Date of Metadata Production

2012-12-01

DDI Document Version

Version 1.0 December 2012)

DDI Document ID

DDI-IND-MOSPI-CSO-TUS-1998-99