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Time Use Survey (TUS), January 2024-December 2024

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DDI-IND-NSO-TUS-2024-24
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    Survey ID number

    DDI-IND-NSO-TUS-2024-24

    Title

    Time Use Survey (TUS), January 2024-December 2024

    Country
    Name
    INDIA
    Abstract

    Time Use Survey (TUS) provides a framework for measuring time dispositions by the population on different activities. One distinguishing feature of Time Use Survey from other household surveys is that it can capture time disposition on different aspects of human activities, be it paid, unpaid or other activities with such details which is otherwise not possible in other surveys. In recent years, time use surveys have gained much impetus among policy makers and other data users for their usefulness in measuring various aspects of gender
    statistics.
    National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) in India conducted the first Time Use Survey during January - December 2019. The second Time Use Survey will be conducted during January -December 2024.

    Objective of the survey

    The primary objective of Time Use Survey (TUS) is to measure participation of persons in paid and unpaid activities. The survey will be an important source of information on the time spent in unpaid caregiving activities, unpaid volunteer work, unpaid domestic service
    producing activities of the household members. This will also provide information on time spent on learning, socializing, leisure activities, self-care activities, etc. by the household members.

    Unit of Analysis

    Unit of survey: The first stage unit (FSU) is the village/UFS block/SU depending on the sampling frame.

    Scope

    Keywords
    TUS NSSO cooking lighting sweeping activity unpaid domestic services self development activities paid activities unpaid activities

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    The survey covers whole of the Indian Union except the villages in Andaman and Nicobar Islands which are difficult to access.

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    NSSO MoSPI
    Producers
    Name Affiliation
    DIID M/o STATISTICS & PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION
    Funding Agency/Sponsor
    Name
    M/o STATISTICS & PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION

    Sampling

    Sampling Procedure

    In Time Use Survey (TUS), a rural village was notionally divided into a number of subunits (SU) of more or less equal population during the preparation of frame. Census 2011 population of villages was projected by applying suitable growth rates and the number of SUs formed in a village was determined apriori. The above procedure of SU formation was implemented in the villages with population more than or equal to 1000 as per Census 2011. In the remaining villages, no SU was formed. SUs were formed in urban sector also. The procedure was similar to that adopted in rural areas except that SUs were formed on the basis of households in the Urban Frame Survey (UFS) frame instead of population, since UFS frame does not have population. Each UFS block with number of households more than or equal to 250 was divided into a number of SUs. In the remaining UFS blocks, no SU was formed.

    A stratified two stage design was adopted for the TUS. The first stage units (FSU) were villages/UFS blocks/sub-units (SUs) as per the situation. The ultimate stage units (USU) were households in both the sectors.

    In the rural areas, stratification was made as follows: (a) all inhabited villages within each NSS State region constituted a rural stratum and (b) a special stratum, in the rural areas only, was formed at all-India level before the strata are formed in each State/UT. This stratum comprised all the uninhabited villages as per Census 2011 belonging to allStates/U Ts. In urban areas strata were formed within each NSS State region on the basis of size class of towns as per Census 2011.

    Sub-Stratification in rural areas: In rural areas, three groups of villages were formed within each stratum (except special rural stratum) as follows:
    Group 1: all villages (Panchayat wards for Kerala) with Census 2011 population less than 250
    Group 2: all villages (Panchayat wards for Kerala) with Census 2011 population more than or equal to 250 but less than 500
    Group 3: remaining villages

    The sample size for a rural stratum was allocated among 3 groups in proportion to Census population. Sub-strata was demarcated in Group 1, Group 2 and Group 3 respectively in such a way that each sub-stratum comprises a group of villages (all SUs of a village considered together) of the arranged frame and have more or less equal Census population within the respective group.

    Sub-Stratification in urban areas: Sub-strata were demarcated in such a way that each sub-stratum comprised a group of UFS blocks (all SUs within the block taken together)having more or less equal number of households.

    Weighting

    10024 FSUs will be surveyed at all-India level. The total number of sample FSUs will beallocated to the States and UTs in proportion to population as per Census 2011 subject to aminimum s ample allocation of 16 FSUs to each State/UT.State/UT level sample size will be allocated between two sectors in proportion to population as per Census 2011 with 1.5 weightage to urban sector. A minimum of 4 FSUs, each for rural and urban sector separately, will be allocated to each State/UT. For more urbanised big States like Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu etc., the urban allocation will be limited to rural sample size to avoid undue weightage to urban sector.

    Data collection

    Mode of data collection
    • Face-to-face [f2f]

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    DDI-IND-NSO-TUS-2024-24

    Producers
    Name Abbreviation Affiliation Role
    DIID Data Informatics and Innovation Division M/o Statistics & PI Metadata study
    Date of Metadata Production

    2025-04-12

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    v1.1

    Version date

    2025-04-12

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