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Informist, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025

 

NEW DELHI – The proportion of Indians performing unpaid house work rose in 2024 from 2019, according to the statistics ministry's latest Time Use Survey. As per the fact-sheet of the survey, released Tuesday, the all-India participation rate in 'unpaid domestic services for household members' rose to 54.1% in 2024 from 53.2% in 2019, when the survey was conducted for the first time.

 

In terms of time, Indians spent 129 minutes on unpaid house work in 2024--three minutes fewer than in 2019. However, the disparity in time spent by males and females continues to be huge. In 2024, females spent 236 minutes, or almost four hours a day, on unpaid house work, down seven minutes from 2019, while males spent just 24 minutes a day, one minute less than in 2019.

 

This was reflected in the overall share of unpaid activity for females in total activity. In 2024, females spent as much as 305 minutes a day--just over five hours--on unpaid activities, the same as in 2019. However, the time spent on paid activities edged up by six minutes to 62 minutes. For males, the daily time spent on unpaid activities was down 11 minutes in 2024 from 2019, with paid activity rising by a similar duration.

 

"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," the statistics ministry said Tuesday. The ministry surveyed a total of 454,192 persons for the 2024 edition of the Time Use Survey. A breakdown of the the minutes spent per day on various activities is as follows:

 

ACTIVITY	MALE		FEMALE		ALL PERSONS
	2019	2024	2019	2024	2019	2024
Employment and related activities	263	287	61	71	164	180
Production of goods for own final use	28	18	23	21	26	20
Unpaid domestic services for household members	25	24	243	236	132	129
Unpaid caregiving activities for household members	11	13	37	47	24	30
Unpaid volunteer, trainee, other unpaid work	3	1	2	1	2	1
Learning	102	94	84	84	93	89
Socialising and communication, community participation, religious practice	134	124	127	126	130	125
Culture, leisure, mass media, sports	146	169	141	148	143	159
Self-care and maintenance	729	710	723	706	726	708

 

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Reported by Siddharth Upasani

Edited by Rajeev Pai

 

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