VIJAY GOEL TO INAUGURATE
SEMINAR ON TIME USE STATISTICS
Ministry of Statistics
& Programme Implementation is organising a two-day national
seminar on Applications of Time Use Statistics. Shri Vijay Goel,
Minister for State for Statistics & Programme Implementation
and PMO will inaugurate the seminar here tomorrow.
Time Use Survey is
a newly emerging survey technique in which comprehensive data
collected on how people spend their time on productive as well
as personal care activities. A number of productive activities
performed by people especially by women do not get remunerated.
Time use data, which highlight such unpaid work, are relevant
for framing policies related to gender equity, poverty alleviation
and other social imperatives.
Organised in collaboration
with the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), New
Delhi and the Centre For Development Alternatives (CFDA), Ahmedabad,
the seminar will be attended by international agencies like International
Labour Office (ILO), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
and UNIFEM and the representatives from Nepal and Sri Lanka. A
large number of national experts and Non Government Organisations
(NGOs) working in this field will also be participants.
