INDIA - Time Use Survey (TUS), January 2019-December 2019

National Statistical Office (NSO) in India conducted the first Time Use Survey during January – December 2019. The survey measures the participation rate and time spent on paid activities, care activities, unpaid activities, etc.

The primary objective of Time Use Survey (TUS) is to measure participation of men and women in paid and unpaid activities. TUS is an important source of information on the time spent in unpaid caregiving activities, volunteer work, unpaid domestic service producing

activities of the household members. It also provides information on time spent on learning, socializing, leisure activities, self-care activities, etc., by the household members.

The Time Use Survey, 2019 has the following features:

(i) In this survey, information on activity particulars was collected for each household member of age 6 years and above, with a reference period of 24 hours starting from 4:00 AM on the day before the date of interview to 4:00 AM on the day of the interview. The reference period of 24 hours was split into 48 time slots, each of duration of 30 minutes.

(ii) The Information on time use for the reference period was collected through personal interview from the persons of age 6 years and above of the selected households.

(iii)Respondents were asked about their activities performed in the designated time slots and the same was recorded against the corresponding slot. In case of multiple activities in a time slot the activities which were performed for 10 minutes or more were recorded.

(iv) The activities reported by the respondents, were codified (3-digit code) following the International Classification of Activities for Time Use Statistics 2016 (ICATUS 2016).The cla ssification is referred to as TUS activity classification in this Report. The code

structure and description of the 3-digit code of the TUS activity classification are given in Annexure in Chapter Two.

(v) Determination of activity performed in a day and time spent in a day in that activity have been done in the following ways:

a. Considering only the major activity in a time slot: While considering only the major activity in a time slot, the entire duration of the time in that time slot has been allotted to the major activity and the major activity was considered as the activity performed in that time slot.

b. Considering all the activities in a time slot: While considering all the activities performed in a time slot, the entire duration of time in a time slot has been assigned among the activities in a time slot in the following ways:

If in a time slot only one activity was performed, the entire duration of that time slot was allotted against that activity.

If in a time slot more than one activity was performed, the entire duration of that time slot was allotted equally among the activities performed in that time slot.