India to release monthly unemployment data from April: Report
New Delhi: The Indian government will start publishing monthly unemployment figures from April, a senior official said on Friday, aiming to provide more frequent data for policymakers, reported Reuters.
Until now, the government released only quarterly unemployment data for urban areas and combined annual figures for urban and rural regions.
A Mumbai-based private think tank, the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), has been the sole provider of monthly estimates.
"We have been collecting unemployment data since January, but the release will begin in April," Saurabh Garg, secretary of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, was quoted as saying by Reuters.
Garg noted that sample designs had been modified to generate district-level estimates, enabling more granular policymaking.
Geeta Singh Rathore, director general of the National Sample Survey (NSS), said the new reports would include monthly nationwide unemployment estimates, workforce participation, and employment, according to the report.
Additionally, the quarterly Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) will now provide separate urban and rural estimates.
To improve accuracy, the sample size for the jobs survey has been expanded from 16,000 to 22,000, Rathore added.
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