Table 5.

Effect of Selected Covariates on Women's Employment

	All Work		Waged Work
Variable	Coef.	Z-Statistic	Coef.	Z-Statistic
Muslim	−0.57	−8.81 **	−0.83	−10.8 **
No Husband in the Household	−0.51	−4.18	−0.37	−2.807 **
Not Married	1.07	5.82 **	1.09	6.005 **
Husband’s Education	−0.04	−7.71 **	−0.06	−9.468 **
Husband in Salaried Job	−0.38	−6.89 **	−0.18	−2.504 *
No. Persons in the Household	−0.08	−3.81 **	0.02	0.992
No. of Married Women in the Household	−0.05	−0.80	−0.17	−2.3 *
Place of residence (omitted category: Metropolitan City)
Other urban	0.44	5.35 **	0.25	2.539 *
More developed village	1.47	16.55 **	0.97	9.289 **
Less developed village	1.68	18.39 **	1.14	10.6 **
Household cultivates land	1.15	21.97 **	−12.66	−12.10 **
Log of total income	−0.29	−9.65 **	−0.55	−16.75 **
Income less than 0	−2.20	−6.49 **	−4.87	−14.06 **
Age of the woman	0.03	11.02 **	0.02	5.853 **
No. of children living with respondent	0.21	8.34 **	0.05	1.71
Years of education of the woman	−0.05	−7.64 **	−0.05	−6.72 **
Constant	1.60	4.53 **	2.80	6.397 **
N	29,826	4.63	29,826	6.16
Chi-Sq (df=37)	4,690		2,914
Predicted Probability of Work Participation
Hindu	0.54		0.16
Muslim	0.40		0.08

Note: Results are from logistic regressions containing dummy variables for state of residence (not presented in table). Predicted probability is from regressions holding all other variables at their mean values.

^*p < 0.05;

^**p < 0.01.