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Two joblessness narratives in India from two large-scale surveys -Sriharsha Devulapalli and Pramit Bhattacharya

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A Mint analysis suggests that the CMIE figures should not be considered a proxy for the official unemployment and labour force participation rates

As the country went under lockdown, and everything, including the collection of statistics, came to a halt, analysts and economists were left scrambling for data to seize up just how badly the economy was doing. One dataset that has come to the rescue is the nationally representative employment-unemployment database of the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE).

The high-frequency data on unemployment published by CMIE have been widely used to gauge the state of joblessness, and as a proxy for the state of economic activity across the country during the lockdown period.

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