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Accounting for Unpaid Care Work in India: National Time Transfer Accounts Analysis

Aparna Roy and T.V. Sekher

Economic flows from unpaid care work/home-produced services fall outside the national accounts production boundary, systematically understating women's economic contributions, as they predominantly contribute to household production. This paper accounts for unpaid care workflows for men and women in time and monetary units, estimating its economic value in India. Using the National Time Transfer Accounts (NTTA) methodology, data from Time Use Survey 2019 and Periodic Labour Force Survey 2019-2020, we estimate the profiles of production, consumption, and transfers of unpaid care work across all ages. Significant gender differences are observed. Women specialize in unpaid care, and men in paid work. Women are net givers of unpaid care from ages 16 to 79, while men are net beneficiaries across all ages. Young children are the prime receivers of unpaid care. the monetary profiles mirror the time-based profiles. the study addresses the unequal unpaid care burden in India from a generational economy perspective using NTTA.