Employment takes many forms and a salaried job is only one of them. CPHS captures all forms of employment -- whether it is formal or informal employment in the organised or unorganised sector; whether it is a salaried job or entrepreneurship in some form, even if the entrepreneurship is essentially self-employment. Today's gig workers would classify as self-employed entrepreneurs, for example. So would the typical Ola/Uber cab driver. CPHS is designed to cover them all -- so long as they live in households in India.
The first observation we make is that the overall employment in India has been almost
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