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Time Use Survey 2024

March 2 , 2025 9 hrs 0 min 83 0

The second All-India Time Use Survey, 2024 was recently released by Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation.
The time spent by females in a day on unpaid domestic services for household members reduced by 10 minutes to 289 minutes in 2024.
It was 299 minutes in 2019.
Females spent 201 more minutes in a day in unpaid domestic services for the household members than their male counterparts last year.
Females also spent 62 more minutes in a day in unpaid caregiving activities for household members than males.
The share of unpaid household work for females aged 15-59 years remained high as they spent 305 minutes in such work in 2024.
For employment and related activities, however, men spent 132 minutes more than females (341 minutes by females, 473 minutes by males).
Overall, around 83.9 per cent females participated in the unpaid activities during a day in 2024.
It is almost the same as the level of 84.0 per cent in 2019.
For paid activities, their share increased 20.6 per cent in 2024 from 17.1 per cent in 2019.
The participation rate of males in unpaid activities increased to 45.8 per cent in 2024 from 43.9 per cent in 2019.
For paid work, their share increased to 60.5 per cent from 54.8 per cent.
Males spent 415 minutes in a learning activity in 2024 as against 426 minutes earlier in 2019.
Females spent 413 minutes in such activities in 2024, down from 423 minutes in 2019.