Reforming labour statistics

Beginning September 2019, CMIE's CPHS will start capturing the time-distribution of activities of adult members of a household in addition to capturing the employment/unemployment status

The International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS) organised by the International Labour Organisation in October 2013 re-defined work and employment for the purpose of statistical measurement. In doing so it seems to have recognised a lot better the new applications of labour statistics compared to the times when these were largely inputs in measuring national accounts.

The big conceptual break in the 19th ICLS is a recognition that the earlier segmentation of labour into three statuses -- employed, unemployed and inactive was grossly inadequate. Effectively, such segmentation rendered all women who worked at home to bring up children, take care