Quarterly Periodic Labour Force Survey: Unemployment rate at record low in September quarter

This was the 2nd consecutive 4th of a diminution successful the unemployment complaint for municipality areas, aft the unemployment complaint had inched up to 6.7 per cent during January-March this year. Gender omniscient divided showed that the unemployment complaint for females was besides astatine a grounds debased of 8.4 per cent successful July-September. However, this marked the 5th consecutive 4th of the pistillate unemployment complaint remaining supra 8 per cent. For males, the unemployment complaint inched little to 5.7 per cent successful July-September from 5.8 per cent a 4th agone and 6 per cent a twelvemonth ago.

The quarterly PLFS information measures labour marketplace indicators specified arsenic unemployment rate, LFPR and WPR based connected the existent play presumption for municipality areas. As per the existent play status, the labour enactment presumption is determined connected the ground of a shorter notation play of past 7 days preceding the day of survey.

For the yearly unemployment and labour unit figures nether the PLFS, the measurement is usually seen for the longer word done the accustomed presumption (ps+ss) approach. The workforce successful the accustomed presumption (ps+ss) includes the persons who worked for a comparatively agelong portion of the 365 days preceding the day of survey and the persons from among the remaining colonisation who had worked astatine slightest for 30 days during the notation play of 365 days preceding the day of survey.

For the benignant of employment, the PLFS information showed an betterment for the regular wage/salaried workers arsenic good arsenic self-employed workers. The stock of persons engaged successful regular wage jobs roseate to 23.1 per cent successful July-September from 22 per cent successful the year-ago play and 22.6 per cent successful April-June. The percent of persons engaged arsenic ain relationship idiosyncratic and employers accrued to 15.3 per cent successful July-September from 14.4 per cent successful the year-ago play but was marginally little than 15.4 per cent successful the erstwhile quarter. This is among the past acceptable of PLFS surveys which is being released quarterly. The authorities is readying to bring retired monthly periodic labour unit surveys for some agrarian and municipality areas from January adjacent year.

The Ministry volition besides merchandise a backmost series, astatine slightest for the erstwhile 12 months, with adjustments made successful enactment with the higher modular mistake of the caller monthly bid of the PLFS to marque the information comparable.