Report of the Independent Group on Home based Workers

There is as yet, no national or international standard for definition of ‘home-based worker’. The Independent Group on Home-based Workers in India, set up by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, examined national and international experience on statistics of ‘homeworkers/outworkers’ and ‘place of work’ and
developments in the ‘classification of status in employment’ and evolved a definition of ‘home-based worker’, keeping in view the realities of Indian conditions of work at home in rural and urban areas.