Articles by Pravin Visaria

What is the rationale for conducting surveys like the National Family Health Survey when there are already available reliable data sets from the census and the sample registration system which provide wellacknowledged data-base for planning and policy making? In this paper a brief examination of the data from the other surveys and their particular limitations precedes an overview of the NFHS, specifically designed to provide the information that social scientists need, and the nature and quality of the data it has generated.

Pravin Visaria Lakdawala's tireless devotion to work put to shame many younger academics. His life, writings and speeches hold many lessons for raising the quality of education and research in economics and other social sciences.

Age and Marital Status in India, 1961 Pravin Visaria All the Indian five-year plans have assigned high priority to the creation of adequate employment opportunities to prevent an increase in the quantum of prevailing unemployment and underemployment. To quantify the implications of this objective, it is necessary to obtain reasonably good estimates of the labour force participation rates or the proportion of people who work or seek work. If these rates are available by sex and age, it becomes possible to calculate the number of new entrants into and withdrawals from the labour force.

January 29, 1977 Trends in Rural Unemployment in India Two Comments Pravin Visaria THIS note seeks to re-examine some of the empirical data presented by K N Raj in his interesting analysis of "Trends in Rural Unemployment in XI, Nos 31-33), August 1976, and his Presidential Address to the 18th-19th All-India Labour Economics Conference held at Patiala during September 27- 29, 1976 in which he has dwelt on ''Unemployment and Structural Changes in Indian Rural Society" (Mainstream, Vol XV, No 7, October 16,

in Rural India Since the Approach to the Fifth Plan anticipates that the additional wane-employment will fall short of the estimated increase in labour force and envisages agriculture as the residual employment sector to absorb the increments to the labour force, public rural works will have to form an important component of the employment generating activities during the Plan period.