Republic of India Livelihoods in intermediate towns

Appendix 6

Non-farm Occupation/Activity Profile Schedule
1. Nature of non-farm activity (brief description):
2. Name of the Owner:

3. Caste / Community: 4. Age: 5. Gender:

6. Education: 7. Marital status:

8. Year of establishment:

9. Number of family members working in the activity:

10. Number of employees / wage / salaried:

11. Amount invested at the time of establishment:

12. Source of funding (ever taken bank loan?):

13. Approximate monthly income:

14. Ownership of the building (Self-owned / rented):

15. Father’s occupation:

16. Primary occupation(s) before starting the activity:

17. Other occupation(s) currently engaged in:
18: Occupations of family members other than father:

19. Agricultural land owned:

20. Motivation for starting current activity/ ups and downs over the past 10 years or so:

21. Perception on economic viabilities in future (plans / success / failures):

22. Perceptions challenges and difficulties / challenges on current occupation:

23. Given the choice would respondent like his / her children to continue with this occupation:

24. Preference for your children:

a. Agriculture

b. Current occupation

c. Business in the town

d. Salaried job

e. Housewife (for daughter)

d. Any other

25. Do you have bank account? Yes No

26. Are you member of any political party (provide details: party/since when):

27. Are you member of any social/cultural/business organization (provide details):

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1^ Government of Bihar. Economic Survey 2013-14. Pp. 4-7.

2^ http://planningcommission.nic.in/reports/sereport/ser/stdy_nfeco.pdf. Accessed March 11 2015.

3^ Government of India, indiabudget.nic.in/es2013-14/echap-01.pdf. accessed on March 16, 2015.

4^ Bihar’s economy grew at 11.4 percent as compared to the national average of 8.2 percent.

5^ This visit was in company of Partha Mukhopadhya of the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi

6^ However, elderly men may choose to go for agricultural wage labour in the village. Therefore the constitution of the agricultural labour force in the villages is not only determined by gender, it is also determined by age. Once men have returned to the village, having migrated previously, and consider themselves old enough to not seek work actively on a regular basis, some of them choose to do agricultural wage labour.

7^ An exception to women’s marginal participation in the non-farm economy through traditional caste-based occupations is the case of the Madhubani painters. Women constitute the bulk of Madhubani painters, the sale of which has taken on the form of a family business – with mostly women involved in painting and men involved organizing sale and exhibitions (See Qualitative Information: Case Study C II)

8^ Brief description of the social engineering and caste categories under Nitish Kumar.