ABSTRACT
Applications A typically Indian problem of developing reliable estimates of Gross Domestic Products because of rural preponderance of small-scale industries in the unorganized sector, heightened by difficulties of locating the workers engaged therein and hence ascertaining their numbers, was addressed by Chaudhuri, Bose & Ghosh (2004). They concentrated on a particular neighbouring district of Kolkata and utilized the available survey results concerning it to initiate a stratified two-stage equal as well as unequal probability sample selection so as to estimate the district totals of people earning their livelihoods through occupations in 10 rural rudimentary industries such as (i) Handloom (H), (ii) Bamboo (B), (iii) Husking (HU), (iv) Poultry (P), (v) Silk (S), (vi) Stone-breaking (SB), (vii) Bidi-making (BM), (viii) Ironsmithy, (ix) Carpentry (C) and (x) Paddy-crushing (PC).
