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Women in Telangana (129 minutes) and men in Goa (351 minutes) spent the highest time on ‘employment-related activities’ in 2024, shows results of the latest Time Use Survey (TUS) released on Friday by the statistics ministry.
Among union territories (UTs), men in Delhi spent the highest time (406 minutes) on ‘employment-related activities’
On the other hand, women in Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu (162 minutes each) spent the highest time on such activities.
After Telangana, women in Goa (128 minutes), Andhra Pradesh (122 minutes) and Tamil Nadu (119 minutes) spent the highest time in employment-related activities among states.
Similarly after Goa, men in states such as Gujarat (331 minutes), Maharashtra (325 minutes) and Karnataka (313 minutes) spent the highest time in remunerative activities.
According to the survey, women in 16 states and UTs spent less than an hour a day on ‘employment-related activities’ in 2024 compared to 18 states in the 2019 survey.
Among such states, women in Bihar and Nagaland spent only 27 minutes each on ‘employment-related activities’ in a day in 2024. This was followed by women in Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh, who spent only 31 and 32 minutes in such remunerative activities, respectively, in a day.
Other such states include Arunachal Pradesh (40 minutes), Assam (41 minutes), Odisha (48 minutes), Haryana (49 minutes), Himachal Pradesh (50 minutes), Tripura (52 minutes), Jharkhand (52 minutes) and West Bengal (56 minutes).
The survey includes employment in corporations, government and non-profit institutions.
It also includes employment in household enterprises to produce goods and services, training and studies in relation to employment and setting up a business under the ‘employment-related activities’ category.
Among UTs, women in Ladakh spent as little as 21 minutes on ‘employment-related activities’ in a day. This was followed by women in Jammu & Kashmir (26 minutes), Lakshadweep (39 minutes) and Delhi (54 minutes).
This comes at a time when women on an average gave 10 minutes more to ‘employment-related activities’ and spent 7 minutes less on ‘unpaid domestic services for household members’ per day in 2024 against what they did in 2019.
At the pan-Indian level, women spent 71 minutes on ‘employment-related activities’ in a day in 2024.
The time spent by men on ‘employment-related activities’ rose to 287 minutes in 2024 from 263 minutes in 2019. They spent one minute less (24 minutes) on ‘unpaid domestic services for household members’ in 2024 compared to 2019.
For TUS 2024, information on time use was collected for persons aged 6 years and above with a reference period of 24 hours.
The respondents were asked about their activities in the designated time slots of 30 minutes and this was recorded against the corresponding slot.
In case of multiple activities in a time slot, a maximum of three activities — which were performed for 10 minutes or more — were recorded.
The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) conducted the first country-wide Time Use Survey (TUS) during January-December 2019. The second all-India TUS was conducted after a gap of 4 years in 2024.
