Studies in Indian Economics Issued by the Office of the Economic Advisor to the Government of India Second Series Aspects of Indian Social Economics No.1 Changes in the Occupational Distribution of the Population

In order to show precisely the difference between the procedures adopted in 1881 and 1891 respectively the rules for filling in the entries are reproduced below:— But the procedure adopted in 1891 of recording simply the means of Censuses of 1901 1911 and subsistence and ignoring the distinction between 1921. [...] *See below pages 21 and 25."4 the rest of the year there is comparatively no work on the land and the labour of the principal earner is generally sufficient for the requirements of the small farm that obtains in India. [...] The Indian occupational returns do not however give the distribution of occupations according to the ages of workers and it is not possible to estimate the proportion of workers between the ages of 10 and 60 years as well as between 15 and 60 years to the population within the same age-groups. [...] The fall in the number of workers in 1921 may to a large extent be attributed to the influenza epidemic of 1918-19 in which the incidence of mortalitwas highest among adults between the ages of 20 to 40 years; and it has been estimated that about 9 million persons between the ages of 15 to 60 years died as result of the epidemic. [...] It will however be seen from the following table that even allowing for the changes in classification the fall in the proportion of female workers to the female population is much greater than the fall in the proportion of male workers to the male population.