Latest PLFS data showed softer labour market conditions despite improving urban employment trends, reflecting seasonal moderation in economic activity India's urban unemployment rate fell to a ...

Starting April, India’s official statistical reporting on economic data is in for a significant overhaul with monthly surveys on the labour force, private sector capital investments and faster data on ...

Ministry of Statistics rolls out upgraded PLFS with larger sample size, rural-urban quarterly estimates, and monthly national labour indicators from April 2025 The National Statistical Office (NSO), ...

Manufacturing has the highest share of salaried workers among major sectors in India ...

India’s labour market in the second quarter (July–September/Q2) of 2025-26 (FY26) showed resilience, with the jobless rate easing even as more people entered the workforce. However, a rise in youth ...

Studies such as India Skills Report 2024 show that the skill sets of our graduates have been catching up with growth trends and employability. In India, the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) ...

India's rural unemployment rose to 4.3% in Jan-Mar 2026 after prior declines, while urban joblessness eased to 6.6%. Female unemployment increased in both areas, but more rural women gained salaried ...

New Delhi: India’s labour market has almost completely overcome its quantitative and qualitative scarring from the Covid-19 pandemic, the 2025 Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) released by the ...

Poverty is estimated on the basis of consumption and not income in part because consumption is easier to measure and smoother than income. (Representative image) A recent study by Arvind Panagariya ...

The Union Government has decided to revamp the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS), started in 2017, to include employment and unemployment data from rural areas too. The Ministry of Statistics & ...

Recent months have seen a flurry of data and report releases from the National Statistics Office (NSO). While some of these are routine surveys conducted by it, in some cases the NSO has made ...

Wage data together with employment suggests that while the number of persons seeking jobs and getting employed has increased considerably in last six years, increase in wages has not been able to keep ...