The paper examines two sets of issues, those related to activities which are
already in SNA but still outside the labor statistics in developing countries and other those
related to women's household maintenance activities, which are still outside SNA, the unpaid
care work. On the basis of experience in Nepal, it argues that much of the activities in the
first category can be recorded in censuses, while for the second category advocacy must go
simultaneously at national and international levels. Given the time and cost involved in large
scale time use data and given even the censuses are very sketchy in many countries, efforts
should also be made to record time spent on house work in censuses as well as labor force
surveys, with careful design and training.