The national employment guarantee scheme and inequities in household spending on food and non-food determinants of health in rural India

Table 7 Participation in MGNREGS by household occupation in rural Rajasthan, 2009-10*

Household occupation	Percent of households†	Percent that got MGNREGS work	Mean MGNREGS work days
Household occupation	Percent of households†	Percent that got MGNREGS work	All households	Beneficiary households
Labourer	27.6	75.2	56	74
Self-employed agriculture	48.6	60.9	43	69
Other households	23.8	36.3	24	66
All households	100	59.0	42	71

*Computed from NSSO’s employment and unemployment survey 2009–10.
†The sample of labourer households was 716, of self-employed agriculture was 994, and of other households was 872; the percentages shown are adjusted using the distribution of these categories of household in the rural Rajasthan population as the reference.

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