EmbVMENT Ajsnb Livmo MNbA&Ds S?l be found to be gainfully active on any average day. This drop of 21 per cent workers as between the 'usual' and 'current day9 status was concentrated among rural females and among casual wage workers. Of these 240 million working person days on a typical d&y, roughly 50 per cent was in manual work in crop'productions, 15 per cent in other agricultural activity and 35 per cent in non-agriculture. Just under 80 per cent of these forking person days were performed in rural areas and almost 40 per cetit were in wage paid employment. (c) Although rural employment was overwhelmingly agricultural and urban employment predominantly non-agricultural, non-agriteultural employment was not predominantly urbto. In fact, for both the Self-employed and usually-employed categories,^ there were more non-agri&ultural workers resident in rural than m urban area&. Only for regularly employed employees was the number of urban non-agricultural workers larger than the corresponding rural number. However, the bulk of this latter set is in the organised sector. Therefore, unorganised sector workers are predominantly resident in rural areas—overwhelmingly so for agriculture, but also (though to a much lower extent) for non-agriculture. (d) In both urban and rural areas, those classified on a usual status basis as casual wage employees were the poorest class of workers. They had the lowest per capita monthly consumption expenditure and the highest proportion of persons below any given poverty line among all workers. These also reported unemployment in persons-day terms and were the only workers with significant current unemployment. Such unemployment was df course, higher among those reporting themselves as unemployed in 'usual day' terms, bnr this class had higher per capita consumption and a lower incidence of pbverty than those reporting casual wage employment as their ^usual activity". This reflects the fact that thos^ reporting their 'usual status' as unemployed usually come from richer households. The poorest households are the agricultural labour households,, foltewed <;lo^ly by other usual labour households—wd those have higher usu^l status worker rates than on average mainly on account of tegher female participation. (e) The richest plass ,of workers, whether in terms of percapita consumption or of the-incidence of poverty, are those with permanent employment in non-agriculture. These workers are, on average better off than the self-employed, agricultural or non-agricultural, in rifeer rural or crisis areas. Since workers in the organised sectors are almost wholly in this class and form a large proportion of it^ the relative affluence of this.ctess of workers reflect^ the relative affluence of organised sector workers relative to all other workers. Ofco^ce there are also relatively rich self-employed p^sons in both agriculture and non-agriculture but the proportion of selt-e^aployed having per-capita consumption higher than the medium per-capita consumption of the organised sector workers is less than 10 per cent—and, the absolute number of such rich self-employed persons is therefore much less than the number of employees in the organised sectors who themselves form