Mapping women's work in India: An application of small area estimation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Understanding variations in women's work participation at lower administrative levels, such as districts, is a missing link in identifying trends, patterns and variation that can offer insights into this long-term stagnation. We link data from the 2019-21 Indian National Family Health Survey and the 2011 Indian Population and Housing Census to generate estimates of women's work within 640 districts of India, and to examine the spatial clustering of women's work across these districts. We examine women's work through three outcome variables, namely, district-level estimates of 1) percentage of women who worked in the past 12 months, 2) percentage of women who were self-employed in the past 12 months, and 3) percentage of women who earned cash in the past 12 months.

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SUBMITTER: Srivastava S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11838883 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature