Rukmini S
@Rukmini
Knowledge from data for everyone. Founder, @dataforin. Book: "Whole Numbers & Half Truths" (Westland '21).
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www.dataforindia.com The Big Shift Data For India’s subscriber only newsletter, delivering data informed stories about India’s long term transformation, right to your inbox. New on @dataforin: for an area that is so crucial for public health, data on tobacco consumption in India can be limited and not well disaggregated. Our new work by @nileena_suresh attempts to surface key insights and put this data out there for others to use as well. A thread:
Why do women who were once doing paid work quit? New work on @dataforin from India's labour force survey, based on what these women themselves gave as the reason.
New Data Byte: Childcare and housework take women out of India's labour force, by @akwaghmare
Fewer women than men being in the labour force is a global phenomenon, but the gender gap is one of the highest in India. While 80% of men are part of the labour force, only 40% of women are in the labour force in the country.
Both men and women may enter, leave, and re-enter the labour force for a range of reasons. However, the circumstances that take men and women out of the labour force are very different.
India's national labour surveys ask people who are currently not working but have worked in the past the reason for dropping out of work. Most men between the ages of 20-49 years cite health as the reason, followed by lay-offs or contract termination.
Health reasons take some women out of work as well, but the numbers are much smaller, and restricted to older women. Women in their twenties, thirties and forties who have dropped out of the labour force largely cite household work and childcare as the reasons they left the workforce.
Childcare is a particularly important reason cited by young women, or those in their twenties. More than three in ten women between the ages of 20-29 years who were earlier working report childcare as the reason they do not work anymore.
As women grow older, household work and health become more prominent reasons to quit work. Across all age groups in the prime working ages, however, household work remains the leading reason women leave the labour force.
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New on @dataforin: seen over the long term, India's pre-monsoon season shows the most substantive changes in the frequency and intensity of seasonal rainfall.
A thread on our analysis using 120 years of daily IMD rainfall data:
A thread on our analysis using 120 years of daily IMD rainfall data: