Risk Map: Occupation X Income Group X Consumption Weight

Income x Expenditure x Occupation x Savings/ Investments x Living Conditions x Access to infrastructure and welfare data are all collected from the same household enabling cross analysis and more meaningful insights.

INTEGRATED ANALYSIS & INSIGHTS: Occupation and Consumption

Methodology

• The table on the left shows, separately for rural India and for urban India, the occupations that households are mainly dependent on and the income distribution that each occupation group has; it then shows the contribution to rural/urban total household consumption expenditure of each occupation x income group.
• So, 7.5 in the topmost left-hand corner means that 7.5% of rural consumption expenditure comes from farmers in the lowest income group.

Insights from this data include

1. Includes identifying consumption at risk due to environmental factors that may affect some occupations more than others.

Detailed insights are available at
https://www.livemint.com/news/india/only-half-of-india-s-household-consumption-will-come-through-post-covid-11587321841699.html