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CBSE · Class 11 · Social Science

Employment: Growth, Informalisation and Other Issues

Standard difficulty · 20 questions · 40 marks · Time: 37 minutes

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Write full answers in Sections B and C. Answers are on the last page — try every question first!

Section A — Choose the correct answer8 × 1 = 8 marks
1.
Activities that contribute to gross national product are:
  1. leisure activities
  2. voluntary work only
  3. household chores only
  4. economic activities
2.
By status, a lawyer with her own practice is a:
  1. disguisedly unemployed worker
  2. unemployed person
  3. self-employed
  4. casual wage labourer
3.
What is meant by “seasonal unemployment”?
  1. more people on a job than are needed
  2. workers who own and run an enterprise
  3. workers per 100 people
  4. no work between farm seasons
4.
A town has 437,000 people, of whom 253,460 are workers. What is its worker-population ratio?
  1. 58
  2. 42
  3. 63
  4. 55
5.
In the book’s table, the secondary sector formed 16% of India’s workforce in 1993–94 and 24.3% in 2011–12. By how many percentage points did the share change?
  1. 8.3 points
  2. 8.8 points
  3. 40.3 points
  4. 9.3 points
6.
A farm needs 2 workers, but 5 family members work on it. How many are disguisedly unemployed?
  1. 7 workers
  2. 5 workers
  3. 2 workers
  4. 3 workers
7.
Under MGNREGA, a rural household gets 56 days of work at ₹340 a day. What does it earn?
  1. ₹19,040
  2. ₹19,380
  3. ₹396
  4. ₹34,000
8.
Suppose 60 lakh of a region’s 200 lakh workers are in the formal sector. What percentage is that?
  1. 30 %
  2. 60 %
  3. 70 %
  4. 40 %
Section B — Short answer8 × 2 = 16 marks
9.
Who is a worker?
10.
Explain each term: (a) jobless growth (b) worker-population ratio
11.
Is each worker self-employed, a regular salaried employee or a casual wage labourer? (a) an accountant on the monthly payroll of a firm (b) a loader paid per day at a wholesale market
12.
Which kind of unemployment is this: open, disguised or seasonal? (a) a sugar cane cutter is idle between cutting seasons (b) five family members work a farm that needs only two
13.
Is each in the formal or informal sector? (a) a private hotel with 39 hired workers (b) a government office with 28 hired workers
14.
In 2023–24 the worker-population ratio for women was 30.7 overall, 34.8 in rural areas and 20.7 in urban areas. Out of 298,000 rural women and 298,000 urban women, how many of each would be workers?
15.
Using the book’s table, did the share of self-employed workers in India’s workforce rise or fall from 2017–18 (55.6%) to 2023–24 (58.4%), and by how much?
16.
A rural household is guaranteed up to 100 days of work under MGNREGA. It works 58 days at ₹200 a day. What does it earn, and how much more could it earn by working all 100 days?
Section C — Longer answers4 × 4 = 16 marks
17.
Explain the three kinds of workers by status.
18.
Match each with its meaning: (a) self-employed (b) worker (c) worker-population ratio. Choose from: workers per 100 people; anyone engaged in an economic activity; workers who own and run an enterprise.
19.
In 2023–24 India’s workforce was 46.1% in the primary sector, 24.1% in the secondary sector and 29.8% in services. Suppose a state has 450,000 workers in the same shares. (a) How many work in each sector? (b) Which sector employs the most? (c) In 1972–73 the primary share was 74.3%: how many points has it fallen?
20.
A district has 650,000 people and a worker-population ratio of 52. 16% of its workers are in the formal sector. (a) How many workers are there? (b) How many are in the formal sector and how many in the informal sector? (c) Give two problems informal sector workers face.
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Employment: Growth, Informalisation and Other Issues · AW-11SS-EEM-2026-V1 · For parents — fold back or tear off before handing the sheet to your child.

QAnswerWorking
1(d) economic activities—
2(c) self-employed—
3(d) no work between farm seasons—
4(a) 58253,460 ÷ 437,000 × 100
5(a) 8.3 points24.3 − 16
6(d) 3 workers5 − 2
7(a) ₹19,04056 × 340
8(a) 30 %60 ÷ 200 × 100
9Anyone engaged in an economic activity that adds to GNP, paid or self-employed, including those briefly away due to illness.—
10(a) output growing without matching employment (b) workers per 100 people—
11(a) regular salaried employee (b) casual wage labourer—
12(a) seasonal (b) disguised—
13(a) formal (b) formal—
14103,704 rural and 61,686 urban34.8% and 20.7% of 298,000
15rose; 2.8 points higher in 2023–2458.4 − 55.6
16₹11,600; ₹8,400 more58 × 200; (100 − 58) × 200
17Self-employed workers own and run an enterprise; regular salaried employees are paid regularly by an employer; casual wage labourers are hired when needed and paid for the work done.—
18(a) workers who own and run an enterprise (b) anyone engaged in an economic activity (c) workers per 100 people—
19(a) primary sector 207,450, secondary sector 108,450, service sector 134,100 (b) the primary sector (c) 28.2 points46.1%, 24.1% and 29.8% of 450,000; 74.3 − 46.1
20(a) 338,000 (b) 54,080 formal, 283,920 informal (c) irregular income, no job security or social security, and dismissal without compensation52% of 650,000; 16% of that