Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has directed the ministries and government departments not to duplicate official estimates and sought strict compliance to ensure that data and statistics collected are consistent.
The minister said the international experience suggests that the inequalities tend to increase in the early phase of development.
The employment rate in the country declined marginally from 39.2 per cent to 38.6 per cent between 2009-10 and 2011-12, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Wednesday.
The unemployment rate in 27 major cities has declined by two percentage points during 1999-2000 and 2004-05.
With a view to removing disparity in minimum wages across the country, the national minimum wage is likely to be raised to Rs 70 per day from Rs 50 at present.
The Planning Commission pegs decline at 7.8 percentage points between 2009-10 and 2011-12.
During the five-year period beginning 2000, 12.4 million people were provided employment per year, Union Minister for Labour Oscar Fernandes said quoting a survey carried out by the National Sample Survey Organisation.
Expenditure on food articles as a proportion of monthly expenditure is decreasing.
Urban India accounted for 26 per cent of the poor in 2004-05.
While the economy has been averaging an annual growth rate of around 8.7 per cent for the last five years, the unorganised manufacturing sector is slowing down.
Employment in India saw a V-shaped recovery after being adversely impacted between April and June 2020 during the Covid lockdown and during April-June 2021, when the second wave struck, said Krishnamurthy V Subramanian, former chief economic advisor, in a paper released on Friday. Subramanian is now serving as executive director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). From the official survey data of the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO), the paper titled 'Employment in India: Data Sources, Facts, and Trends' showed that both worker-population ratio (WPR) and labour force participation rate (LFPR) were higher, while the unemployment rate was lower during October-December 2022 when compared to the corresponding quarter in 2019.
The government's decision to release the reports comes two days after over 200 scholars from across the globe issued a statement demanding release of all withheld reports produced by the NSO, including the household consumer expenditure survey that was junked.
The wage data from the latest NSS round throw up some really wonky stuff.
With the two members quitting, the NSC now has only two members -- Chief Statistician Pravin Srivastava and NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant.
A survey conducted by the National Sample Survey Organisation has revealed that 51 per cent or more than half of India's rural households (marginal farmers possessing less than 1,076 square feet of land) have no ration card at all.
India's unemployment rate fell to a six-year low of 3.2 per cent in the July-June 2022-23 period, down from 4.1 per cent in the same period the previous year, according to the latest annual Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) report. The report, released by the National Statistical Office (NSO) on Monday, showed a decline in unemployment rates in both rural and urban areas during the 2022-23 period to 2.4 per cent and 5.4 per cent, respectively, from 3.2 per cent and 6.3 per cent in the 2021-22 period. The unemployment rate for rural women (1.8 per cent) was lower than that for rural men (2.7 per cent) in 2022-23; in urban areas, the rate was higher for females (7.5 per cent) compared to males (4.7 per cent).
Employment in the organised sector has gone down from 2.77 crore (27.7 million) in 2001 to 2.70 crore (27 million) in 2003, Lok Sabha was informed on Monday.
The Indian economy needs to generate an average of nearly 78.5 lakh jobs annually until 2030 in the non-farm sector to cater to the rising workforce, according to the Economic Survey for 2023-24. The Survey tabled in Parliament on Monday also laid emphasis on the private sector's role to create employment in the country saying "In more than one respect, the action lies with the private sector. "In terms of financial performance, the corporate sector has never had it so good."
The rate of unemployment rose from 7.3 per cent in 1999-2000 to 8.35 per cent in 2004-05, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Wednesday. The 11th Five-Year Plan has special schemes to encourage the organised sector to employ more labour and simultaneously, to improve labour productivity in the unorganised sector.
Consumption per capita was 5.6 times less in a month for the bottom ten per cent of the population than the top 10 per cent in rural areas during 2009-10.
"There are several ways in which poverty can be measured . . . the National Sample Survey is the basis for calculating poverty on headcount basis. However, when minister of state for planning V Narayansamy said 'poverty line is being assessed', there was an uproar in the House and Joshi was joined by CPI-M- MP Brinda Karat, who wanted a satisfactory reply from the minister.
Rural Bihar appears to be doing much better than urban areas in the state, if one goes by a recent National Sample Survey Organisation report.
The employment rate (number of person unemployed per 1000 person in the labour force) according to usual status was 17 in the rural areas and 45 in the urban locations.
The difference of wages and salaries between rural and urban women employees is of Rs 67.66, Union Minister for Labour and Employment Oscar Fernandes said, citing a report of the National Sample Survey Organisation in the Upper House. The average wages and salaries of rural and urban women employees per day are Rs 85.53 and Rs 153.19 respectively, he said.
According to an NSSO survey, Indians in rural areas spend less than Rs 21 per day, while in urban area an Indian spends about Rs 39 per day.
India is planning to amend the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Act 2023 to specify the use of funds currently earmarked at 5,600 crore for exploring critical mineral mines overseas, according to a top official. The proposed amendments also aim to introduce a tailings policy and modify the royalty structure to facilitate the extraction of critical minerals from waste materials, the official added.
National Sample Survey Organisation, a division within the ministry of statistics, has been roped in to collect price data for the new series and a dry run is on the anvil in the next couple of months. The new series will have 2004-05 as the base year, as against 1993-94 in the present mode and will reflect a consumption basket that is relevant in today's scenario, thereby making inflation data more reliable. The new series will have 2004-05 as the base year.
It is of course true that a lot of low-income people can indeed afford mobile phones today, as handsets cost no more than Rs 700.
India's urban unemployment rate declined in Q4FY23 to 6.8 per cent - the lowest in over four years -- after it stagnated at 7.2 per cent in the previous October-December quarter, reflecting improvement in the labour market, according to the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) released by the National Statistical Office (NSO) on Monday. The unemployment rate in current weekly status (CWS) terms for all ages in the March quarter was the lowest recorded in more than four years, from the time the NSO released India's first quarterly urban jobless rate for the December quarter in 2018. The jobless rate in urban areas had been on a continuous decline since the peak of 20.8 per cent in the April-June quarter of FY21.
"The report says that per capita consumption expenditure of 18.7 per cent of the rural population and 4.7 per cent of the urban population in the country is less than Rupees 12 per day. It implies that 16.3 crore people in the country spend less than Rs 12 per month representing 14.7 of the total population," Minister for Rural Development Reghuvansh Prasad informed the Lok Sabha on Monday.
The latest estimates of poverty reduction in the country, put out by the National Sample Survey (NSS), are unique in that they have not been welcomed by anyone.
The average monthly per capita consumer expenditure in the country was Rs 554 for the rural areas, while for urban India it was Rs 1,022 according to the National Sample Survey, the Lok Sabha was informed on Wednesday.
