India, Dec. 2 -- Bihar now has a new government in place, and the newly elected assembly started working from Monday with MLAs being administered oaths. To be sure, it is largely the same government the state has had in the last two decades. There has been enough analysis, including in these pages, of the election results from the perspective of electoral statistics. What follows below is the last of the analytical pieces on the Bihar results. However, what makes it different is that it is based on an average day in the life of a Bihar rather than politics. The data used has been taken from the National Sample Survey Organisation's Time Use Survey (TUS) report for 2024.

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