This study, now being conducted by Yoshifumi Usami and Arindam Das, attempts to evaluate the methodology used by different agencies that collect and publish data on wage rates in rural India. It also analyses data on wage rates and wage earnings from the village studies conducted as part of the Project on Agrarian Relations in India. The study further attempts to explain diverse arrangements or modes of wage employment, the variation in wages paid for different agricultural operations, agricultural wage differentials between different States of India, and gender-based wage disparities.