Labour minister Yadav flaggs off first Survey on Domestic Workers

Labour and Employment Minister Bhupender Yadav on Monday flagged off the first ever All India Domestic Workers Survey in New Delhi..The survey will cover  742 districts in 37  States and Union territories. The objective is to estimate the number and proportion of domestic workers at the national and state level and find out household estimates of live-in and live-out domestic workers. Besides, it will also estimate the average number of domestic workers engaged by different types of households. On the occasion, Yadav also released instruction manual with questionnaire for All India Survey on Domestic workers, which will cover 37states/UT’s and 742 Districts across the length and breadth of the country.

Speaking on this occasion, the minister said that this is for the first time in Independent India that such Nationwide survey is being conducted and this shows the commitment  of government towards  having an evidence based, data driven policy which will help in targeted and last mile delivery of services & achieve the goal of Sabka Sath, Sabka Vikas. The Minister said the survey will help the government understand significant issues and chart evidence-based data-driven policies. 

The All India Survey on Domestic Workers is aimed to estimate the number and proportion of domestic workers at National and State level, percentage distribution of domestic workers with respect to Live-in/Live-out, formal/ Informal Employment, Migrant/Non-Migrant, their wages and other socio-economic characteristics.