Goa Draft Annual Plan 1993-94 Part I - Plan in Outline - Analysis of Sectoral Outlays and Statistical Statements

Abstract

The overall low work force participation rate in the State could be looked at in two ways: the extent of marginal workers and the extent of unemployment. Marginal workers comprise about 5% of the population in this State, compared to 3% at the national level (1981 Census). In other words, a large proportion of Goan population could find work for less than half the year in the period before the Census. This is particularly the case of women, where almost 7% of all women are employed as marginal workers (and 2.4% of males). Of these women, as many as 84% have reported their primary activity as household work.