Transcript Getting Better Gender Statistics from NSS* Surveys *The Indian National Sample Survey.

Getting Better Gender
Statistics from NSS* Surveys
*The Indian National Sample Survey
NSS Surveys: A Brief Introduction
 Started in 1950
 Yearly but on varying subjects
 A subject usually repeated every 5
years or so
 For each subject, time series data thus
produced
 Aim of NSS - To fill data gaps in
national income aggregates
A Brief Introduction to NSS Surveys
(contd.)
• Till date, the NSS Organisation (NSSO) is the
largest survey organisation in the world
employing permanent survey staff who are
trained in conduct of surveys in diverse areas
• Because of its size, NSS is able to survey a
sample of over 100,000 households in India for
the main subject of enquiry in a particular year
NSS surveys
 Household surveys
 Enterprise surveys
 Other surveys
Household surveys
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Employment & unemployment
Consumer expenditure
Health
Education
Land holdings
Debt and investment
Enterprise surveys
 Unorganised manufacturing
 Unorganised services
 Unorganised trade
Other surveys
 Particulars of slums
 Village facilities
 Particulars of constructions
Method of data collection
Two-stage sampling
1st stage
Select villages/ urban blocks randomly from
complete list of villages/ urban blocks in
India
2nd stage
Visit each selected village/block
Select households/enterprises randomly
from list of hhs/enterprises prepared first
Interview the selected hhs/ enterprises to
record data on the subject of enquiry
Strengths of NSS surveys
• Objective, fair and transparent
• Because of large sample size, can generate
State-level estimates and estimates for subpopulations such as cultivators, agricultural
labourers, etc.
• If some information on level of living of the
surveyed households can be collected (by
asking questions on household consumption),
the survey results can be classified by economic
level (e.g. health expenditure of bottom 20%
population, next 20%, etc.)
Weaknesses of NSS surveys
• To collect all the information wanted, very
long schedules of enquiry have to be used
which strain the respondents’ patience and
affect data quality
• The household member capable of giving
the information is often busy and the rest,
though willing, are ignorant
• Enterprise owners/managers tend to
conceal information on the volume of
business, and receipts in particular
Grading of NSS surveys by availability of gender
data
1 Employment &
Most info. col- Most info. tabUnemployment
lected person- ulated genderwise
wise
2 Education
Some info. col- Some tabulalected person- tion done
Health
wise
genderwise
3 Mfg/Service/Tra- Very little information collected
ding enterprises genderwise.
4 Consumption
No information on the main
subject of enquiry collected
Land holdings
Assets & Indebt- personwise. All information
collected household-wise.
Gender statistics available from the NSS
Employment & Unemployment Survey
Worker population ratio
Labour force participation rate
Employment rate
Break-up of workers by industry
All available genderwise
Enterprise Survey
Gender-wise data collection is restricted on
a few aspects of the survey
Ownership of own account enterprise
Workers
Areas where such type of data not
collected/generated
Compensation to workers
GVA
Asset/liability
Consumer Expenditure Survey
• Except for demographic particulars data
not collected gender-wise
• Survey results are published on per capita
basis
• Data not generated gender-wise on
certain important parameters viz.
 food consumption of males/females
 expenditure on education
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