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Rural India spending more time on learning activities, women take lead: Centre

IANS February 27, 2025 155 views

The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) has released its 2024 Time Use Survey revealing fascinating insights into learning patterns across India. Rural areas are showing significant engagement in educational activities, with women playing a particularly progressive role in narrowing historical learning time disparities. The survey tracked time spent on formal education, extra-curricular activities, and learning-related travel for individuals aged 6 and above. While overall learning time slightly decreased compared to 2019, the data highlights an important shift in educational participation across different demographic segments.

"India is among the few countries conducting national Time Use Survey" - MoSPI Statement
New Delhi, Feb 27: More people living in rural areas spent their time in learning activities in 2024 than those in urban areas, according to a survey by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI).

Key Points

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Rural women closing learning time gap with men

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Learning activities decline slightly since 2019

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Survey covers population aged 6 and above

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Time use tracked across urban and rural regions

The MoSPI defined learning activity as time spent on formal education which involves school/university attendance, extra-curricular activities, homework among other things. It also includes travelling time-related to learning.

The second edition of the Time Use Survey (TUS), conducted between January- December of 2024, showed that females have closed the gap with men in spending time on learning activities in the last five years.

Women continued to spend 84 minutes “learning”, while the time spent by men declined to 94 minutes from 102 minutes in the last five years.

Notably, the time spent on “learning activity” declined for both the urban and rural areas in 2024 as compared to what it was in 2019.

While in urban areas people spent 87 minutes a day on learning in 2024, they spent 95 minutes in 2019. Similarly, people spent 90 minutes in rural areas in 2024, compared to 92 minutes in 2019, the report said.

The first country-wide TUS survey was conducted by MoSPI during January and December, 2019.

“India is among the few countries, including Australia, Japan, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand, USA and China that conduct the national TUS to analyse how people allocate their time to various daily activities,” the ministry said in a statement.

“The primary objective of the survey is to measure the participation of men and women in paid and unpaid activities,” it added.

For the TUS 2024, information on time use was collected for people aged 6 years and above with a reference period of 24 hours.

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