India’s latest PLFS data shows declining urban unemployment, rising rural wage employment and a shift towards non-farm jobs, while overall participation rates remain stable ...

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 ...

India’s labour market in the second quarter (July–September/Q2) of 2025-26 (FY26) showed resilience, with the jobless rate ...

New official data from the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) reveals that youth unemployment in India reached a four-quarter high of 15% during the January-March 2026 period. The report highlights a ...

Official data on job creation and unemployment will be available every month, likely from April next year, as the government has approved a proposal to increase the frequency of the Periodic Labour ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Improved survey coverage and data-release frequency would help generate confidence in our statistical system. Recent months have seen a flurry of data and report releases from the National Statistics ...

The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) released the sixth round of the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) for 2022-23 on October 9 — the day when the Economics Nobel was awarded to Claudia Goldin ...