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The occupational structure of India’s population:
(i) The population of India according to their economic status is divided into three groups, namely; main workers, marginal workers and non-workers.
(ii) It is observed that in India, the proportion of workers (both main and marginal) is only
39.8 per cent (2011) leaving a vast majority of about 60 per cent as non-workers.
(iii) The proportion of working population, of the states and UNION Territories show a moderate variation from about 39.6 per cent in Goa to about 49.9 per cent in DAMAN and Diu.
(iv) The work participation RATE tends to be higher in the areas of lower levels of economic DEVELOPMENT since number of manual workers are needed to perform the SUBSISTENCE or near subsistence economic activities.
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