Agricultural Labour Enquiry Report on Intensive Survey of Agricultural Labour (All India)

The problems of agricultural labour have also been coming to the forefront in recent years in the scheme of activities of the I. L. O. The United Nations are devoting considerable attetion to the problems relating to the standard and levels of living. [...] B. Ramamurti who in addition to his duties as the Joint Director Central Statistical Organisation undertook at the request of the Ministry of Labour to prepare these series of reports on the Intensive Family Survey of agricultural labourers and to the officers and staff of the Statistical Unit of the Ministry of Labour for giving him the necessary assistance. [...] 6. The scope of the schedules concepts definitions and other methodological aspects as 'well as the organisational aspects of the enquiry are described in Chapter I. It may however be pointed out that in the light of the experience of the pilot enquiry the method of collection of data for the year as a whale as originally proposed was dropped and was replaced by collection of data month afte [...] The United Nations has also been giving some thought to the problems of measurements of standards of living in view of the fact that promotion of higher standard of living is set forth in the Charter of the United Nations as a general goal of international and social activity. [...] It covered besides family living employment wages and in fact all economic aspects of the life of agricultural labour."(xiv) In the design of the survey analysis and presentation of data the recommedations of the I. L. O. in their monograph Family Living Studies " and that of the U. N. Statistical Sub-Commission on sampling were kept in view to the extent possible.