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Table 8.5
District-wise Child Sex Ratio in Arunachal Pradesh: 1991–2001
1991 2001
Districts T R U T R U
Tawang 965 965 NA 948 948 948
West Kameng 970 973 932 955 956 952
East Kameng 1036 1036 NA 1035 1027 1058
Papum Pare 934 942 924 978 967 990
Lower Subansiri 970 978 947 1005 1013 945
Upper Subansiri 1005 1005 NA 985 985 985
West Siang 997 1008 921 950 949 953
East Siang 1008 1007 1009 958 945 1003
Upper Siang 967 967 NA 1010 1010 NA
Dibang Valley 994 1008 906 946 947 939
Lohit 968 980 912 933 927 966
Changlang 987 987 NA 954 958 912
Tirap 946 940 1054 941 933 1000
Arunachal Pradesh 982 986 946 964 960 980
Source: 1991—District Census Handbooks, Census of India, 1991, Series-3, Arunachal
Pradesh, Part XII-A&B; 2001—Provisional Population Totals, Paper-2 of 2001,
Census of India 2001, Series-13, Arunachal Pradesh.
Note: NA implies that there was no urban population in the district.
was not very significant during 1991–2001 (Table 8.6). In 2001, FWPR in
the districts was found to be negatively correlated with the female literacy
rate and the percentage of the urban population to the total population,
but positively correlated with the proportion of the ST population in the
total population. During 1991–2001, the age-specific WPR of the 15–19
age group declined by close to 11 percentage points, compared to 2.9 for
the 15–59 age group. There could be various factors behind the decline
in work participation among relatively younger females, particularly in
the rural areas, ranging from expansion of educational opportunities to
decline in jhum (shifting/slash-and-burn) cultivation and the changing
gender distribution of work in families.
Another significant dimension of women’s work in Arunachal Pradesh
is the relatively high proportion of marginal workers among the female
workers. 5 In 2001, 8.13 per cent of the total female workers were marginal
workers, while among the males the percentage was only 4.60. Of the
total marginal workers in the state, 61.23 per cent were females in 2001.
The relatively higher proportion of females among marginal workers
signifies the additional constraints women face while entering ‘productive’