Quarterly Jobs Data

Economic survey for June quarter of 2021-22 noted that employment in nine sectors was 29 per cent more than what was recorded in sixth economic census

India GDP Data Forecast: The May 20-27 poll showed the outlook for the March quarter was lowered to 21.6 per cent annually, and to 9.8 per cent on average for this fiscal year

India's gross domestic product or GDP is widely expected to have shrunk in the April-June period, as data covering the quarter fully captures the damage caused by the fast-spreading coronavirus pandemic. Many economists expect the country to suffer its worst quarterly de-growth since the mid-1990s, with estimates of contraction as bad as 25.9 per c...

In June, EPFO witnessed an addition of 6.55 lakh net subscribers registering a 280 per cent month-on-month growth

India's gross domestic product (GDP) grew 3.1 per cent in January-March, official data showed on Friday, reflecting the partial impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on the manufacturing and services sectors. That was much better than economists' estimates, but still lower than 4.1 per cent in the previous quarter. The annual expansion in the GDP stood a...

India's gross domestic product (GDP) growth slowed to 4.5 per cent in the July-September period, worse than economists' estimates, official data showed on Friday. That marked the slowest pace of economic expansion recorded since the quarter ended March 31, 2013. Consumer demand and private investment weakened and a global slowdown hit exports, hurt...

The government will at 5:30 pm today release data on GDP or gross domestic product for the second quarter of current financial year. Many economists expect India's GDP growth rate to decline further to below 5 per cent amid consumption slowdown and loss of thousands of jobs. Economic growth had come in at 5 per cent - the lowest rate of expansion r...

The estimates are worked out on what is called current weekly status method. A person is considered as unemployed in a week if he did not work even for 1 hour during that week. Joblessness among youth aged between 15 and 29 years was at 22.5 per cent during the January-March period this year, down from 23.7 per cent in the previous quarter. This se...

A person is considered as unemployed in a week if he did not work even for 1 hour during that week. Joblessness among the youth - those aged between 15-29 years and who account for roughly over a third of India's 1.3 billion people - was also marginally lower at 22.5% in the quarter ending March 2019, from 23.7% in the preceding quarter.

India's economy expanded at its slowest pace in over six years, government data showed on Friday. Growth in the country's gross domestic product (GDP) stood at 5 per cent in the first quarter of current financial year (2019-20), compared with 5.8 per cent in the previous quarter, and 8.0 per cent in the quarter ended June 30, 2018. Decelerating for...

India's auto industry is in the middle of one of its worst slumps. Passenger vehicle sales fell 18.4 per cent in the first quarter, and monthly passenger vehicle sales in June fell by the biggest margin in 18 years

The only two non-government members of the National Statistical Commission, including its acting chief, have quit over "disagreements" with the government on the release of a jobs survey and concerns about it being buried in election season. Acting chairman PC Mohanan and member JV Meenakshi quit with a year left in their term, over the delay in th...

The government has formed a committee under former chief statistician TCA Anant to ensure transparency in jobs data calculation and presentation, the labour ministry has said. The labour bureau conducts two surveys on employment -- Annual Employment-Unemployment Survey (EUS) and Quarterly Employment Survey (QES)

The government is set to map employment in the economy's vast informal sector when the labor ministry starts publishing quarterly surveys on jobs in about a year's time, covering enterprises with less than 10 people, including those who are self-employed.

More than 100,000 sample households across 7,500 villages and 5,000 urban blocks will be questioned every quarter to generate closer-to-real-time information.

Economic survey for June quarter of 2021-22 noted that employment in nine sectors was 29 per cent more than what was recorded in sixth economic census

India GDP Data Forecast: The May 20-27 poll showed the outlook for the March quarter was lowered to 21.6 per cent annually, and to 9.8 per cent on average for this fiscal year

India's gross domestic product or GDP is widely expected to have shrunk in the April-June period, as data covering the quarter fully captures the damage caused by the fast-spreading coronavirus pandemic. Many economists expect the country to suffer its worst quarterly de-growth since the mid-1990s, with estimates of contraction as bad as 25.9 per c...

In June, EPFO witnessed an addition of 6.55 lakh net subscribers registering a 280 per cent month-on-month growth

India's gross domestic product (GDP) grew 3.1 per cent in January-March, official data showed on Friday, reflecting the partial impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on the manufacturing and services sectors. That was much better than economists' estimates, but still lower than 4.1 per cent in the previous quarter. The annual expansion in the GDP stood a...

India's gross domestic product (GDP) growth slowed to 4.5 per cent in the July-September period, worse than economists' estimates, official data showed on Friday. That marked the slowest pace of economic expansion recorded since the quarter ended March 31, 2013. Consumer demand and private investment weakened and a global slowdown hit exports, hurt...

The government will at 5:30 pm today release data on GDP or gross domestic product for the second quarter of current financial year. Many economists expect India's GDP growth rate to decline further to below 5 per cent amid consumption slowdown and loss of thousands of jobs. Economic growth had come in at 5 per cent - the lowest rate of expansion r...

The estimates are worked out on what is called current weekly status method. A person is considered as unemployed in a week if he did not work even for 1 hour during that week. Joblessness among youth aged between 15 and 29 years was at 22.5 per cent during the January-March period this year, down from 23.7 per cent in the previous quarter. This se...

A person is considered as unemployed in a week if he did not work even for 1 hour during that week. Joblessness among the youth - those aged between 15-29 years and who account for roughly over a third of India's 1.3 billion people - was also marginally lower at 22.5% in the quarter ending March 2019, from 23.7% in the preceding quarter.

India's economy expanded at its slowest pace in over six years, government data showed on Friday. Growth in the country's gross domestic product (GDP) stood at 5 per cent in the first quarter of current financial year (2019-20), compared with 5.8 per cent in the previous quarter, and 8.0 per cent in the quarter ended June 30, 2018. Decelerating for...

India's auto industry is in the middle of one of its worst slumps. Passenger vehicle sales fell 18.4 per cent in the first quarter, and monthly passenger vehicle sales in June fell by the biggest margin in 18 years

The only two non-government members of the National Statistical Commission, including its acting chief, have quit over "disagreements" with the government on the release of a jobs survey and concerns about it being buried in election season. Acting chairman PC Mohanan and member JV Meenakshi quit with a year left in their term, over the delay in th...

The government has formed a committee under former chief statistician TCA Anant to ensure transparency in jobs data calculation and presentation, the labour ministry has said. The labour bureau conducts two surveys on employment -- Annual Employment-Unemployment Survey (EUS) and Quarterly Employment Survey (QES)

The government is set to map employment in the economy's vast informal sector when the labor ministry starts publishing quarterly surveys on jobs in about a year's time, covering enterprises with less than 10 people, including those who are self-employed.

More than 100,000 sample households across 7,500 villages and 5,000 urban blocks will be questioned every quarter to generate closer-to-real-time information.