IND-CSO-TUS-1998-v1.0
Time Use Survey 1998
TUS 1998
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| India | IND |
Other Household Survey [hh/oth]
Time Use Survey 1998 was the first of its kind in India.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sample survey data [ssd]
Households
v1.0 : Re-organised anonymised dataset for public distribution.
2012-12-01
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
Six States and their Urban and Rural area
All residential Households of Six States.
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Central Statistical Organisation(CSO) | Ministry of Statistcs and Programme Implementation(MOSPI),Government of India (GOI) |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Social Statistics Division | Ministry of 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 | Ministry of Statistcs and Programme Implementation(MOSPI),Government of India (GOI) | Data processing and Data Dissemination |
| Name | Abbreviation |
|---|---|
| Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, GOI | MOSPI |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Technical committee | Government of India | Finalisation of survey study and Questionnaire |
The sampling design adopted in the survey was three stage stratified design. The first, second and third stages were the district, villages/urban blocks and households. Proper stratification of the districts in the selected states were done using the population density and proportion of tribal population to ensure capturing of the variability in the population. In the villages/urban blocks also sub-stratification was adopted to ensure representation of all types of households in the Survey.
The total number of households covered in the sample was 18,628 planned.
The total sample size of 18,628 households were first distributed in proportion to the total number of estimated households as per the 1993-94 survey of the National Sample Survey Organisation. No. of first stage units (villages and sample blocks) were determined using the initial sample size to be allocated to each state and by assuming that in each f.s.u. , 12 households will be surveyed. The number of f.s.u. so arrived at was adjusted to be multiple of 8 as atleast 2 f.s.u. each may be covered in 4 sub-rounds.
Selection of villages : All the villages in the selected district were grouped in 3 categories namely large (population above 1200), medium (population between 400 to 1200) and small(population less than 400) . The total rural sample was distributed in three stratum in proportion to the population in the three stratum. In
case any stratum was not applicable in a particular district, the allocated sample was distributed in the remaining stratum only. If more than one village was to be selected in the particular stratum , then villages-were selected using circular systematic sampling with probability proportional to the population. If all the three strata were present then minimum sample size allotted in each stratum was 2.
Selection of urban sample blocks : All the towns in the selected district were grouped in 3 categories namely large(population more than 2 lakhs), medium(population between 50000 to 2 lakhs) and small (population less than 50000) . The total urban sample was distributed in three stratum in proportion to the population in the three stratum. In case any stratum was not applicable in a particular district, the allocated sample was distributed in the remaining stratum only. If more than one sample block was to be selected in the particular stratum, then ufs blocks in each of the towns were presented by investigator unit and ufs
blocks no. The requisite number of ufs blocks were then selected by using circular systematic sampling with equal probability. If all the three strata were present then minimum sample size allocated in each stratum was 2 due to this, in some cases, overall urban sample size allotted in a particular district might have increased.
As no previous survey was conducted on this topic and methodologies to be used were not firmed up, it was decided to conduct this survey on a pilot basis. However, to ensure the use of data collected in the pilot survey also, a proper sampling procedure was followed.
Refer the attached document named 'Report' attached under external resource
There was no deviation from the original sample deviation.
The total number of households covered in the sample was 18.591 as against 18,620 originally planned.
68 % of the households was in rural areas. Therefore, the non-response at 0.1 % was negligible.
For generating any estimate, one has to extract relevant portion of the data, and aggregate after applying the weights.
Weights (or multipliers) VARIABLES are given at the end of record of each dataset. The weights (multipliers) are
WGT_SS for Sub-sample-wise estimation and WGT_Combined for combined subsample estimates.
All records of a household will have same weight figure. In case of those Blocks/Levels, where Item/Person Sl.No. is not applicable the field is filled up with 00000.
Use of subsample-wise weights (multipliers)
For generating subsample-wise estimates based on data of all subrounds taken together, either Subsample-1 households or Subsample-2 households are to be considered at one time. Subsample code is available in the dataset For generating subsample-combined estimates based on data of all subrounds taken together all households are to be considered.
The final questionnaire used in the survey was evolved after a number of discussion with the academic experts and the practising survey statisticians. The final questionnaire consisted of following three parts:
i. Schedule 0.1: Listing Questionnaire for the Rural Areas
ii. Schedule 0.2: Listing Questionnaire for the Urban Areas
iii. Schedule 0.3: Household Questionnaire which consist of following Blocks
(a) Block 0: Identification of Sample Households
(b) Block 1: Household Characteristics
(c) Block 2: Particulars of Household Members
(d) Block 3: Time Disposition of Persons on Selected Days of the Week
A copy of the questionnaire is attached as external resource
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 1998-07 | 1999-06 |
To provide technical guidance for various activities in the Survey a Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) was constituted under the Chairmanship of Prof. Indira Hirway, a non-official expert from Centre for Development Alternatives, Ahmedabad. The composition and term of reference of the TAC are given at Annexure-I. A number of meetings of the TAC was held to finalise the questionnaire, sampling design, tabulation plan etc. The members of the TAC also visited the field to see the quality of field work. The officers of the Central Statistical Organization involved with this Survey frequently inspected the field work. For each State participating in the Survey, a Technical Advisory Committee was also constituted which has the representation of non-official members also. These State level
Advisory Committees were also requested to meet every quarter to sort out the local problems and provide the guidance. Each State was also asked to submit regular progress report of the field work. Because of these strict monitoring mechanism, field work of the Survey sas completed, as per schedule in July, 1999.
The pros and cons of getting the survey conducted through a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) was deliberated in great details. As the survey was to be conducted in 6 States, the strength of the NGO in terms of skilled manpower was an important consideration. As it was difficult to identify such a NGO, it was decided to involve, Directorate of Economics and Statistics of the respective States in this exercise. These organisations already conduct large scale surveys and have their offices located at the districts and block level. Moreover, they also have the data processing facilities. The use of these organisations helped in fast training of the already experienced investigators, reduction in the cost of the survey due to short distance travel involved by the investigators, avoidance of the involvement of another agency for the data entry and processing work. The involvement of these agencies also helped in the capacity building in these organisations.
The date entry and validation work of the Survey was handled by the States for which data entry and validation packages were supplied by the Central Statistical Organization. A Workshop was also organized to sort out the various problems faced by the States in the use of these packages. For evolving the data entry and validation package, the help of Data Processing Division of the National Sample Survey Organization was taken. The validated data was sent by States to the CSO and the final processing of the data was done by the Computer Centre of the Department. In spite of severe problem faced ion the operation of main-frame computer at the Computer Center, data processing work of the Survey completed by the end of November, 99.
The standard error estimates may be calculated on the basis of sub-sample wise estimates of stratum totals.
For Detail refere to Page no 18 of the Report of The Time Use Survey 1998.
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Centre | Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation | http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/site/home.aspx | nssodata@gmail.com |
Validated unit level data relating to various survey rounds are available on CD-ROMS which can be obtained from the Deputy Director General, Computer Centre, M/O Statistics and PI, East Block No. 10 R.K. Puram, New Delhi-110066 by remitting the price along with packaging and postal charges as well as giving an undertaking duly signed in a specified format.The amount is to be remitted by way of demand draft drawn in favour of Pay & Accounts Officer, Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation, payable at New Delhi.
National Sample Survey Organization of India, Time Use Survey 1998 ,Version 1.0, provided by Computer Centre, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation of India. http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/site/home.aspx
The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
© 1999, National Sample Survey Office of India
| Name | Affiliation | URL |
|---|---|---|
| ADG, SDRD , NSSO | M/O Statistics & PI, G/O India | http://mospi.gov.in/ |
| DDG, Computer Centre | Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation | http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/site/home.aspx |
DDI-IND-CSO-TUS-1998-v1.0
| Name | Abbreviation | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Centre | MOSPI, CC | M/O Statistics & Programme Implementation | Documentation of the study |
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