Lok Sabha Question No. 396 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-02-03
Subject: Unemployment Data Released by NSSO
Ministry: STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION
Asked by: Mimi Chakraborty

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 396 TO BE ANSWERED ON 03.02.2021

## UNEMPLOYMENT DATA RELEASED BY NSSO

396.  MS. MIMI CHAKRABORTY:

Will the Minister of STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION be pleased to state:

- (a)  whether  according  to  a  report  by  the  National  Sample  Survey Office  (NSSO),  Rural  Unemployment  Recorded  a  45-year-high  and also,  consumption expenditure of rural families fell  over 9 per cent between 2012 to 2020 period;
- (b) if so, the reasons thereof and the action taken by the Government with Budgetary allocation and spending since 2016; and
- (c)  whether  the  Government  is  having  any  proposal  to  generate employment  and  combat  the  post-covid  unemployment  scenario  of rural India and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) OF THE MINISTRY OF STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION AND MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) OF THE MINISTRY OF PLANNING (RAO INDERJIT SINGH)

- (a): This Ministry has launched a new regular employmentunemployment survey, namely, Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) during  2017-18  with  certain  changes  in  survey  methodology,  data collection mechanism  and  sampling  design  vis-à-vis  the  earlier quinquennial (once in every five years) Employment and Unemployment  surveys  of  NSSO.  The  PLFS  was  launched  with  an

objective  of  measuring  quarterly  changes  of  various  labour  market statistical indicators in urban areas as well as generating the annual estimates of these indicators for rural and urban areas.

Rural  Unemployment  rate  (in  percent)  according  to  usual  status  (ps+ss) from past Employment and Unemployment surveys conducted during 197273 to 2011-12 and Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) conducted during 2017-18 and 2018-19 are given in the Table below:

| All-India                                                               | All-India                                                               | All-India                                                               | All-India                                                               |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Round                                                                   | Round                                                                   | Rural                                                                   | Rural                                                                   |
| (year)                                                                  | (year)                                                                  | Male Female                                                             | Male Female                                                             |
| (1)                                                                     | (1)                                                                     | (2)                                                                     | (3)                                                                     |
| PLFS (2018-19)                                                          | PLFS (2018-19)                                                          | 5.6                                                                     | 3.5                                                                     |
| PLFS (2017-18)                                                          | PLFS (2017-18)                                                          | 5.8                                                                     | 3.8                                                                     |
| 68th                                                                    | (2011-12)                                                               | 1.7                                                                     | 1.7                                                                     |
| 66th                                                                    | (2009-10)                                                               | 1.6                                                                     | 1.6                                                                     |
| 61st                                                                    | (2004-05)                                                               | 1.6                                                                     | 1.8                                                                     |
| 55th                                                                    | (1999-00)                                                               | 1.7                                                                     | 1.0                                                                     |
| 50th                                                                    | (1993-94)                                                               | 1.4                                                                     | 0.9                                                                     |
| 43rd                                                                    | (1987-88)                                                               | 1.8                                                                     | 2.4                                                                     |
| 38th                                                                    | (1983)                                                                  | 1.4                                                                     | 0.7                                                                     |
| 32nd                                                                    | (1977-78)                                                               | 1.3                                                                     | 2.0                                                                     |
| 27th                                                                    | (1972-73)                                                               | 1.2                                                                     | 0.5                                                                     |
| Source: 1. Annual Report, PLFS: 2017-18 2. Annual Report, PLFS: 2018-19 | Source: 1. Annual Report, PLFS: 2017-18 2. Annual Report, PLFS: 2018-19 | Source: 1. Annual Report, PLFS: 2017-18 2. Annual Report, PLFS: 2018-19 | Source: 1. Annual Report, PLFS: 2017-18 2. Annual Report, PLFS: 2018-19 |

(Note: For comparability, the results of the PLFS need to be understood in the context with which the survey methodology and sample selection has been designed)

Also,  the  Household  Consumer  Expenditure  Surveys  conducted  by National Statistical Office (NSO) (erstwhile NSSO), generate estimates  of  household  Monthly  Per  Capita  Consumer  Expenditure (MPCE) and provide distribution of households and persons over the MPCE  classes.  These  surveys  are  designed  to  collect  information regarding expenditure on consumption of goods and services consumed by households. The Monthly Per Capita Consumer Expenditure       (MPCE)  in  rural  areas  from  Household  Consumer Expenditure  Survey  conducted  during  2011-12  is   1429.96.  (Source: NSS  Report  No.  555:  Level  and  Pattern  of  Consumer   Expenditure, 2011-12)

(b)  &  (c):  The  Government  of  India  is  undertaking  a  number  of interventions for integrated and sustainable rural development through employment generation, strengthening of livelihood opportunities,  promoting  self-employment,  skilling  of  rural  youths, provision  of  social  assistance,  infrastructure  development  etc.  The schemes  such  as  Mahatma  Gandhi  National  Rural  Employment Guarantee  Scheme  (MGNREGS),  Deendayal  Antyodaya  Yojana  National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM), DeenDayal Upadhyay -  Gramin  Kaushalya  Yojana  (DDU-GKY),  Pradhan  Mantri  Awaas Yojana  -  Gramin  (PMAY-G),  Pradhan  Mantri  Gram  SadakYojana (PMGSY), Shyama  Prasad  Mukherjee  RuRBAN  Mission,  National Social  Assistance  Programme  (NSAP)  and  Sansad  Adarsh  Gram Yojana (SAGY) among others are being implemented in the country.

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