Plfs Survey

Unemployment rate at 5-year low of 4.1% in 2021-22, shows PLFS data

Quarterly PLFS survey for urban India shows unemployment rate stagnated at 7.2% after declining for five consecutive quarters

Unemployment rate drops for fourth straight quarter, lowest in 4 yrs: PLFS

This is the lowest unemployment rate recorded in the last 4 years, from the time NSO launched India's first computer-based survey in April 2017

Platform economy

Entitlement extension should be calibrated

Persistent problem

India is not creating enough jobs

Statsguru: Six charts show India's employment conundrum amid Covid-19

Business Standard guides you through the numbers you need to know to make sense of the headlines

Joblessness rate down to 12.6% in April-June 2021, says NSO survey

The estimates of unemployed persons in CWS give an average picture of unemployment in a short period of seven days during the survey period

India's labour market distress

Implications for growth story will be severe

Unemployment rate at 9.4% in January-March 2021: NSO survey

NSO data: Joblessness drops in urban India but higher than pre-Covid level

A step backward

PLFS reveals transformation of economy has stalled

Statsguru: Five charts explain how big is India's labour force

The size of India's labour force is likely to have reached 540 million in 2019-20.

Behind the numbers

India's policymakers need more timely unemployment data

Reading between the lines: The PLFS survey

Given that household-level secondary education was not readily available from Census 2011, the PLFS survey might have used some proxies