1.

Name: Sarita
2. Age: 22
3. Average monthly Income: 16000
4. Education level: matriculate
5. Marital status: Unmarried
6. Who’s bread earner for the house? Father works in a factory and mother works as maid
7. Number of family members ? 4 Adults and 4children(4 siblings)
8. Since how many years/months have you been working as maid? 5 years
9. What kinds of work you are doing ? Cooking / Cleaning / Elderly care / child care
Cooking and cleaning
10. How many times you take leaves in a month? Do you inform your clients about it?
4-5 times and sometimes when they are not at home they themselves call not to come.
11. How do you know about any new customer / client in the area?
Most of the places my mother has worked earlier and after her I have joined the household.
12. If we ask you to work at our clients places (we would pay higher wage rate than usual) will
you be willing to work?
No, I am working just to aid my mother. Since my mother has already worked with them
those households are safe.
13. Is there any limitations on the number of hours / number of houses you are willing to serve
a day?
I serve at just 2-3 households.
14. Suppose instead of monthly payments I pay you per day of attendence but at 1.5 times the
usual monthly rate will you be willing to take ? say instead of 8000pm we will give you
300/day (it would amount to 12000 pm)
No.
15. What other expectations have you from your client? Like do you want to have food at their
place; Diwali and holi bonus etc?
Not as such, But memsahib always gift me kurti on Diwali and holi and I like that.
16. How far from home are you willing to work? Would you like to take that a notch further if
we pay for your bus/train fair?
No I can’t go far away from my home. I work only to aid my parents income.
17. What kind of household would you like to work with? Family / Bachelors
Family households.
18. Is there any problem with other households?
Its not very good to work at bachelors house. I won’t feel very comfortable over there.
19. Any proper gender preference?
No, just family households.
20. Do you have aadhar card / pan card / ration card or any other address proof etc?
yes I have aadhar card and a bank account too.
21. (optional) If into elderly care/ child care , do you have any prior experiences or any such
allied formal training ?
No.
1. Name: Shefali
2. Age: 38
3. Average monthly Income: 14000
4. Education level: No education
5. Marital status: Married
6. Who’s bread earner for the house? Husband is bus conductor.
7. Number of family members ? 4 Adults and 3children
8. Since how many years/months have you been working as maid? 12 years
9. What kinds of work you are doing ? Cooking / Cleaning / Elderly care / child care
Cooks at three houses : just cleans utensils
10. How many times you take leaves in a month? Do you inform your clients about it?
no leaves at such ; I take leaves on holidays like holi and diwali only
11. How do you know about any new customer / client in the area?
Mostly from other maids working in the same locality or other household at which I am
already working at.
12. If we ask you to work at our clients places (we would pay higher wage rate than usual) will
you be willing to work?
yes, prefer minimal travel and work in my locality. In case of higher wages I would agree but
houses should not be very far apart as I wont be able to cover more number of houses .
13. Is there any limitations on the number of hours / number of houses you are willing to serve
a day?
6 to 8 hours I can serve .
14. Suppose instead of monthly payments I pay you per day of attendence but at 1.5 times the
usual monthly rate will you be willing to take ? say instead of 8000pm we will give you
300/day (it would amount to 12000 pm)
daily wage acceptable provided I get money daily.
15. What other expectations have you from your client? Like do you want to have food at their
place; Diwali and holi bonus etc?
bonus is something people give out of their happiness. I have never asked for it nor it has
affected my performance.
16. How far from home are you willing to work? Would you like to take that a notch further if
we pay for your bus/train fair?
no travel
17. What kind of household would you like to work with? Family / Bachelors.
I would prefer to work with bachelors they have lower requirements
18. Is there any problem with other households?
Not as such but they have higher expectations and thus have higher quantity of work.
19. Any proper gender preference?
no
20. Do you have aadhar card / pan card / ration card or any other address proof etc?
Yes aadhar card and ration card
21. (optional) If into elderly care/ child care , do you have any prior experiences or any such
allied formal training ?no.
1. Name: Sunita
2. Age: 28
3. Average monthly Income : 10,000
4. Education level: Class 7
5. Marital status : Married
6. Who’s bread earner for the house? : both wife and husband earns
7. Number of family members ? Adults and children – husband, wife, 3 children
8. Since how many years/months have you been working as maid? – 4 yrs
9. What kinds of work you are doing ? Cooking / Cleaning / Elderly care / child care – Cooking,
cleaning, and regular homework.
10. How many times you take leaves in a month? Do you inform your clients about it? – 4-5 times a
week and main national holidays
11. How do you know about any new customer / client in the are? – from existing customers, from
the security guard, from other maids
12. If we ask you to work at our clients places (we would pay higher wage rate than usual) will you
be willing to work? – it depends on how close the place is to my home. I mostly work in places
closer to home.
13. Is there any limitations on the number of hours / number of houses you are willing to serve a
day? – I at present work 8 hrs a day at 5 houses. The rest of the time goes in tra
14. Suppose instead of monthly payments I pay you per day of attendence but at 1.5 times the
usual monthly rate will you be willing to take ? say instead of 8000pm we will give you 300/day
(it would amount to 12000 pm)
15. What other expectations have you from your client? Like do you want to have food at their
place; Diwali and holi bonus etc?
16. How far from home are you willing to work? Would you like to take that a notch further if we
pay for your bus/train fair?
17. What kind of household would you like to work with? Family / Bachelors.
18. Is there any problem with other households?
19. Any proper gender preference?
20. Do you have aadhar card / pan card / ration card or any other address proof etc?
21. (optional) If into elderly care/ child care , do you have any prior experiences or any such allied
formal training ?