Four hundred and one workers
What 401 informal workers in Sukhasan and Chitoriya panchayats told us about their work, wages, debt, health and the schemes meant for them. Choose up to two characteristics below and every number on this page switches to that group.
How much work, at what wage
Each box counts people in the selected group by days of work in a month and usual daily wage. In the marigold boxes, even the top of both answers falls short of Rs 11,336: the Bihar minimum wage for unskilled work, Rs 436 a day from 1 April 2026, over 26 days.
Twenty-one measures, one group at a time
The bar is the selected group. The rust line marks all 401 respondents, so you can see at once where a group sits above or below everyone else. Percentages are of those who answered.
Seven in ten people holding an Ayushman Bharat benefit told us they do not know whether they have health insurance.
Holding a scheme and knowing what it does are two different things. Across everyone surveyed, only 8 per cent hold a shramik card, though three in four work as farm or construction labourers.
Look at any question
Pick a question and a way to split the selected group. Each column adds up to 100 per cent, except where people could tick more than one answer.
How this group compares with the district and the country
The bar is the selected group, recalculated as you filter. The marks are published estimates from other surveys, which are fixed. Definitions differ between sources, so read these as orientation rather than as exact comparisons; the notes under each row say what each benchmark measures.
Regression results
These figures do not change with the filters. They come from logistic models fitted on all 401 respondents, holding the other characteristics constant. Each bar is an average marginal effect in percentage points: how much more or less likely the outcome is for that group, with everything else in the model held fixed.
What people said when asked openly
Two questions were open: the biggest problem informal workers face, and what they expect from government. Answers were coded by keyword into themes, and one answer can carry several. Bars show the share of answers from the selected group mentioning each theme.