  India like many other developing countries is characterized by huge
proportion of informal labour in its total workforce. The percentage of
Informal Workforce is close to 92% of total as computed from NSSO 68th round on
Employment and Unemployment, 2011-12. There are many traditional and
geographical factors which might have been responsible for this staggering
proportion of Informality in our country. As a part of this study, we focus
mainly on finding out how Informality varies with Region, Sector, Gender,
Social Group, and Working Age Groups. Further we look at how Total Inequality
is contributed by Formal and Informal Labour, and how much do
occupations/industries contribute to inequality within each of formal and
informal labour groups separately. For the purposes of our study we use NSSO
rounds 61 (2004-05) and 68 (2011-12) on employment and unemployment. The study
intends to look at an overall picture of Informality, and based on the data
highlight any inferences which are visible from the data.
