Scholarly Research Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies, Online ISSN 2278-8808, SJIF 2016 = 6.17, www.srjis.com UGC Approved Sr. No.49366, NOV-DEC 2017, VOL- 4/37 https://doi.org/10.21922/srjis.v4i37.10600
SPATIAL PATTERNS OF WORK PARTICIPATION AMONG THE MUSLIMS IN INDIA: 2011 Sukhpreet Singh Assistant Prof. Government. Mohindra College, Patiala, Punjab.
Work participation is a very crucial indicator for understanding the economic contribution of various sections and communities of the society. The work participation rate plays an important role in the eradication of poverty and unemployment. The present paper tries to explore the reasons behind the low work participation among the Muslims in India. The reason behind the low work participation among the Muslims, is the overall low status of Muslim women which also leads to low work participation among the Muslim females. Its very sorry state of affair that more than three-forth Muslim women are not participation in work which gives serious blow to the work participation of entire community. Keywords: work participation, Muslims and religious minorities Scholarly Research Journal's is licensed Based on a work at www.srjis.com
Introduction: According to Census of India, work participation rate is defined as the percentage of total workers, including main and marginal workers, to the total population. Census conveys that work involves not only actual work but also includes an effective supervision and direction of work. It also includes part-time help or unpaid work on farm, family enterprise or in any other economic activity. It also includes cultivation or milk production even solely for domestic consumption. Any person involving in such activities with some economic productivity, with or may be without wage or profit are called workers. The reference period for determining a person as worker and non-worker is one year preceding the date of enumeration. The census classifies workers into two groups namely, main workers and marginal workers. Main workers are those who worked and engaged in economically productive activity for major part of the year i.e. at least 6 months (183 days) and more in the reference period; whereas marginal workers are those who worked less than 6 months or may be even for one day during the year preceding the census enumeration. Marginal workers are further divided into two categories, i.e. who worked more than three months but less than six months and those who worked for less than three months.
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