This may be a result of improved incomes and a similar phenomenon as above may be at work impacting the workforce numbers. The other contributing factors, as per their analysis, were: (i) diminishing self-employment opportunities for men, leading to a greater number of women losing their status as unpaid family labour, (ii) loss of employment as casual labour in agriculture, which pushed them back into the households, and (iii) men moving from household agriculture and manufacturing to casual labour in construction. These include their age, life cycle events, education, location of residence, social status, living standard, employment of men in the family, social constraints, mobility, labour market conditions, wage rates, etc.