Worker Population Ratio indicates _____________ .
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → employment situation in the country
To see how many people in a country actually work, we compare the number of workers, people engaged in economic activity, with the whole population. This proportion is the worker-population ratio, an indicator of the employment situation in the country: a higher ratio means more people are producing goods and services; a low ratio means a large part of the population is not directly involved.
Why the other options are incorrect
Option (1) workers engaged in non economic activities — Incorrect. A worker is a person engaged in economic activity, one that adds to the production of goods and services. The ratio counts people in economic activities, not in non-economic ones.
Option (3) people working in informal sector — Incorrect. The informal sector covers workers in small, unregistered enterprises and casual wage labour. The worker-population ratio counts all workers, formal and informal, against the whole population.
Option (4) number of people who can form trade union — Incorrect. Trade unions are associations of workers, found mostly in the formal sector. The ratio has nothing to do with who can form a union.
NCERT (2025-26): “6.3 Participation of People in Employment … Worker-population ratio is an indicator which is used for analysing the employment situation in the country. This ratio is useful in knowing the proportion of population that is actively contributing to the production of goods and services of a country. If the ratio is higher, it means that the engagement of people is greater; if the ratio for a country is medium, or low, it means that a very high proportion of its population is not involved directly in economic activities.…” |