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Women's work in Indian census: beginnings of change.

Maithreyi Krishnaraj

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This article examines Indias efforts to develop reliable statistics concerning womens work. It documents the details of a Unifem project which has made a small beginning in the data collection format for the Census 1991. It also discusses the main problems that [have] dogged the census and the many previous efforts made by researchers and data users to draw attention to the problem and the implications of whatever change has taken place. (EXCERPT)

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This article examines Indias efforts to develop reliable statistics concerning womens work. It documents the details of a Unifem project which has made a small beginning in the data collection format for the Census 1991. It also discusses the main problems that [have] dogged the census and the many previous efforts made by researchers and data users to draw attention to the problem and the implications of whatever change has taken place. (EXCERPT)

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This article examines Indias efforts to develop reliable statistics concerning womens work. It documents the details of a Unifem project which has made a small beginning in the data collection format for the Census 1991. It also discusses the main problems that [have] dogged the census and the many previous efforts made by researchers and data users to draw attention to the problem and the implications of whatever change has taken place. (EXCERPT)

Key concepts: Census, Work (physics), Population statistics, Data collection, Demographic analysis, Developing country, Research methodology, Geography

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