Lok Sabha Question No. 1093 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-03-02
Subject: Labour Force Survey
Ministry: STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION
Asked by: GOKARAJU GANGA RAJU

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1093

TO BE ANSWERED ON WEDNESDAY, THE 2 ND  MARCH, 2016

## LABOUR FORCE SURVEY

## 1093. DR. GOKARAJU GANGA RAJU:

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

- (a) whether  on  the  recommendation  of  the  National  Statistical Commission, the periodic Labour Force Survey is being conducted to measure labour force participation and gauge the impact of economic policies on domestic labour market;
- (b)
- if so, the details thereof;
- (c) whether the NSSO has carried out a survey at all India level as well  as  for  the  rural  economy  and  if  so,  the  details  thereof during each of the last two years; and
- (d) whether  the  Government  is  maintaining  any  data  of  rural employment  growth  and  if  so,  the  measures  taken  by  the Government  to  bridge  the  deficit  in  the  country's  statistical bank?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) FOR MINISTRY OF STATISTICS  AND  PROGRAMME  IMPLEMENTATION  AND  MINISTER  OF STATE FOR MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS [GENERAL (Dr.) V.K. SINGH (Retd.)]

- (a): No, Madam.
- (b): On the recommendation of the National Statistical Commission (NSC)
- for  conducting all India Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) to measure

changes in the labour market, a proposal to carry out the PLFS has been included in 12 th  Five Year Plan (2012-17) of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme  Implementation.  The  main  objective  of  the  Periodic  Labour Force Survey (PLFS) is to measure quarterly changes of various indicators of  the  labour  market  in  urban  areas  as  well  as  to  generate  the  annual estimates  of  different  labour  force  indicators  both  in  rural  and  urban areas. The estimates will be brought out at State/UT and all India level.

The  Annual  estimates  of  the  parameters  from  the  PLFS  (both  rural  and urban areas) will broadly cover (i) Labour Force Participation Rate (LFPR), Worker Population Ratio (WPR) & Unemployment Rate(UR), (ii) Distribution of  workers  by  industry  and  occupation,  and  (iii)  Average  earnings  of workers. The quarterly estimates of changes for urban areas will inter-alia cover  Labour  Force  Participation  Rate  (LFPR),  Worker  Population  Ratio (WPR) and Unemployment Rate (UR).

(c):  Details  relating  to  the  Socio-Economic  Surveys  conducted  by  the NSSO at all India level including rural economy during the last two years are as under:

| Subject covered under the survey                                                                                                 | Period                                           | Estimates/Data relating to                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| (1)                                                                                                                              | (2)                                              | (3)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| Debt & Investment; Land and Livestock holdings (rural only); Situation Assessment Survey of Agricultural Households (rural only) | January, 2013 - December, 2013 (NSS 70 th Round) | Income, investment and indebtedness, etc. Land-use, Operational holdings, source of irrigation, information on livestock, etc. Income and productive assets, indebtedness, farming practices, access to modern technology, crop loss & crop insurance, etc. |
| Social Consumption: Health and Education                                                                                         | January, 2014 - June, 2014 (NSS 71 st Round)     | Prevalence of diseases, use of health services, medical care received as in-patient, use of hospitals and the expenditure on treatment, etc.                                                                                                                |

|                                                                                        |                                           | Participation in education, use of educational infrastructure, educational facilities and incentives, expenditure on education, etc.                                |
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 'Domestic Tourism Expenditure' and 'Household Consumption of Services & Durable Goods' | July, 2014 - June, 2015 (NSS 72 nd Round) | Household expenditure on tourism along with household characteristics, expenditure on services consumed and durable goods that are used for fixed capital formation |

(d):  From  1972-73  onwards,  NSSO  has  been  conducting  quinquennial employment-unemployment surveys in rural as well as urban areas of the country  to  measure  employment-unemployment  related  indicators  and periodical  change  therein.  The  last  such  survey  (9 th   in  the  series)  was conducted by NSSO during the period July, 2011 - June, 2012.

Labour Bureau is conducting Annual Employment-Unemployment surveys since 2010 by covering rural as well as urban areas of all the States/UTs. So far, four such surveys have been conducted by the Labour Bureau. The fourth  Annual  Employment-Unemployment  Survey  was  conducted  during the period January, 2014 to July, 2014.

Further, the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) has been designed with the  objective  to  bridge  data  gaps  in  the  data  required  for  measuring quarterly  changes  of  various  indicators  of  the  labour  market  in  urban areas as well as to generate the annual estimates of different labour force indicators both in rural and urban areas.

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