Out of a total number of 3974 persons from the 750 households
covered in our pilot survey, 2565 persons (1287 male and 1278 female persons) fall in the age group 15-59. It is found that 171 male persons and 816 female persons are voluntarily unemployed in the sense that they are neither seeking nor available for remunerative work. The total workforce consists of 1578 persons out of which 259 persons (16.41 percent) are unemployed. Compared to the male labour force whose rate of unemployment is estimated as 10.57
percent, the rate of unemployment
among the female labour force,
which is found to be 30.52, is significantly higher. Work participation rate of the local population is estimated to be 33.19 percent during the period of the present survey. Relevant
figures are given in table 3.3.
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