By | February 6, 2025

Please click here, here and here to access the key findings of the report entitled Workers in the Times of COVID-19 (first round) by ActionAid India (released 13th August, 2020). —The Annual Report is based on the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) conducted by National Statistical Office (NSO) from July 2018 to June 2019. The survey was spread over 12,720  first…

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By | February 6, 2025

Domestic Workers Sector Skill Council (DWSSC) — a not-for-profit company that works under the ambit of Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship — has done a survey during the COVID-19  lockdown in India. DWSSC did a random sample survey among 200 workers spread across eight states -– Delhi, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Assam, West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand and…

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By | February 6, 2025

Please click here, here and here to access the key findings of the study entitled Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Agriculture and Food Security in India (released on 20th May, 2020), which has been done by Centre for Sustainable Agriculture (CSA, Hyderabad), Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI, New Delhi), and Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health (Boston). —…

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By | February 6, 2025

The Annual Report is based on the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) conducted by NSSO from July 2017 to June 2018. The survey was spread over 12,773 first stage units viz. FSUs (7,014 villages and 5,759 urban blocks) covering 1,02,113 households (56,108 in rural areas and 46,005 in urban areas) and enumerating 4,33,339 persons (2,46,809…

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By | February 6, 2025

As per the report entitled State of Working India 2019 (please click here to access), which has been prepared by Centre for Sustainable Employment, Azim Premji University: • In the present report an update on the jobs situation for the period between 2016 and 2018 is presented along with some ideas for employment generation. • The first few months…

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By | February 6, 2025

The key findings of the report entitled State of Working India 2018 (please click here to access), which has been produced by Centre for Sustainable Employment, Azim Premji University, are as follows: • In the 1970s and 1980s, when GDP growth was around 3-4 percent, employment growth was around 2 percent per annum. Since the 1990s, and particularly in…

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By | February 6, 2025

Please click here to access the Report on “Measuring Productivity at the Industry Level – The India KLEMS Database”, 27 March, 2018, Reserve Bank of India. Please click here to access the major findings of the report.  Please click here  to access the Draft Report of the Task Force on Improving Employment Data (2017) chaired by Arvind Panagariya, NITI Aayog. Please click here to…

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By | February 6, 2025

As per the Economic Survey 2015-16, Ministry of Finance, (Volume-1 , Volume-2) • The proportion of economically active population (15-59 years) has increased from 57.7 per cent to 63.3 per cent during 1991 to 2013, as per Sample Registration System (SRS) data for 2013. • The employment growth in the organized sector (Public and Private combined) increased by…

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By | February 6, 2025

For the report entitled: Employment and Unemployment Situation Among Major Religious Groups in India (2011-12), the survey conducted by NSSO was spread over 12,737 First Stage Units-FSUs (7,469 villages and 5,268 urban blocks) covering 1,01,724 households (59,700 in rural areas and 42,024 in urban areas) and enumerating 4,56,999 persons (2,80,763 in rural areas and 1,76,236…

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