Question

The Duncan Index is a measurement of occcupational and gender segregation.

Question 3 options: 1) True 2) False

Answer 1

False, .

Duncan index basically help in the occupational segregation but on the based of gender .

So it is not measurement of both occupational and gender segregation but it is basically measurement of occupational segregation that how one gender is present in labour force as compared to other in any country.

if the value of Duncan index is zero it means women are equally occupational in employment share and when it is 1 then it indicates that there is a complete gender segregation in the workforce. .

It do not help in finding gender segregation