Workforce participation, which had plummeted during the nationwide lockdown of 2020, improved in later months, but not to the original level, reveals chart 2.
Charts 3 and 4 show the flow of how women and men transitioned from one job status to another between 2019 and 2020. The study shows that a staggering half of working women in 2019 went out of the workforce in 2020. The share of salaried women also dropped to half. The study uses data from the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy’s Consumer Pyramid Household Survey.
Among men, 10 per cent went out of the workforce — a milder impact compared to what women experienced. The share of self-employed among working men remained nearly the same. However, salaried status shrunk for men.
Chart 6 shows that incomes fell during 2020, but the salaried saw the smallest cut. Self-employed took the biggest hit.
StatsGuru is a weekly feature. Every Monday, Business Standard guides you through the numbers you need to know to make sense of the headlines; Source: State of Working India report 2021, Azim Premji University, with data sourced from CMIE-CPHS survey Graphics: Datawrapper, BS Design
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