Empirical Study of Sex-wise Distribution of Tribal Main Workers in Nashik District, Maharashtra

Work may be defined as participation in any economically productive activity. All those who had worked for the major part of the one year preceding the date of enumeration were recorded as main workers (at least 6 months or 183 days) while those who worked for sometime during the preceding year but not for the major part, have been treated as marginal workers. All those, who had not worked at all during the last year, preceding the date of enumeration, were recorded as non workers. Persons engaged in household duties, students, dependents, retired persons, retires, beggars are some of the categories grouped as non workers. There has been no conceptual change in defining the workers between 1981 and 1991 census. At the 1991 census there has been mainly a three-fold classification of population namely main workers, marginal workers and non workers which was adopted for 1981 also. In addition to this, the main workers of 1991 are distributed in nine industrial categories of economic activities but in earlier census of 1981 this presentation was up to four industrial categories only.