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Employment : Growth, Informalisation And Other Issues

Question
CBSEENEC11009410

Study the following diagram and answer the questions following the diagram:

(i) What is the percentage of total hired workers in the employment in urban area?

(ii) What is the percentage of hired workers in the rural region?

(iii) What is the percentage of self-employed workers in rural region?

(iv) What is the percentage of self-employed persons in urban region?

(v) In which regions / areas the percentage of self-employed workers is higher? Why?

Solution

(i) In urban area the percentage of hired workers is 58.

(ii) The percentage of hired workers in the rural region is 44.

(iii) The percentage of self-employed persons in rural region is 56.

(iv) The percentage of self-employed persons in urban region is 42.

(v) In rural region the percentage of self-employed persons is higher because people in rural areas have limited resources to earn a higher income. In rural areas, many do not go to schools, colleges and other training institutions. Even if some of them go, they discontinue in the middle to join the work-force.