Rajasthan BoardEnglish MediumSTD 12 Humanities & CommerceGeographyPart - 2 CH - 1 Population: Distribution, Density, Growth and Composition4 Marks
Question
Explain with examples the occupational structure of India’s population.
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Answer
Most of the India’s population is engaged in primary sector rather than secondary and tertiaiy sectors.
About 58.2 per cent of total working population are cultivator and agricultural labourers; where as only 4.2% of workers are engaged in household industries and 37.6 per cent are other workers engaged in non-household industries, trade, commerce construction and repair and other services.
As the occupation of country’s male and female population concerned, male workers out number female workers in all the three sectors.
The proportion of working population of states show a moderate variation from 25 to 53 per cent.
The number of female workers is relatively high in primary sector.
The proportion of workers in agricultural sector has shown a decline over the last few decades.
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