Table
B 10
: Education levels of women workers aged 15-59 years (%)
India
and selected states : 1998-99
|
States |
No
Education |
Primary
Level |
Secondary
Level |
Higher
Levels |
||||
|
Rural |
Urban |
Rural |
Urban |
Rural |
Urban |
Rural |
Urban |
|
|
Tamil
Nadu |
55.4 |
27.6 |
25.5 |
27.1 |
15.9 |
25.5 |
3.3 |
19.8 |
|
Uttar
Pradesh |
83.3 |
36.3 |
9.2 |
8.8 |
5.0 |
14.1 |
2.5 |
40.9 |
|
West
Bengal |
72.3 |
33.4 |
17.5 |
17.6 |
7.8 |
21.6 |
1.9 |
27.4 |
|
India |
68.02 |
30.3 |
15.9 |
15.7 |
12.4 |
23.7 |
3.7 |
30.3 |
Source: S. Mahendra Dev, "Female Work
Participation and Child Labour: Occupational Data from NFHS", EPW, 14
February 2004, p. 740, Table 9.
[1] See, for example, Mukul Mukherjee " Women's
Work in Bengal, 1888-1939", in Bharati Ray (ed), From the Seams of History: Essays on Indian Women , 1995.
2 WBHDR, p. 102.
3 Dilip Kumar Ghosh, "Changing Profile of
Occupations in Rural West Bengal : A District Level Analysis", Indian
Journal of Labour Economics, Vol. 46(4) , October-December-December 2003,
Table 15.
4 Govt. of India, Ministry of Labour, Labour Bureau, Indian
Labour Journal, July 2004.
5 GOI, Planning Commission, National
Human Development Report 2001, March 2002, Table 6.7, p. 274.
6 Ashim Mukhopadhyay, "Girl Child in Three Indian
States", Economic and Political Weekly, 4 June 1994, p. 1381.