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Joblessness at 45-year high, but NSO adds a caveat

-The Times of India

NEW DELHI: A little over 6% of India's labour force was unemployed in 2017-18, the latest year for which government released data on Friday. The unemployment rate is identical to the rate mentioned in a report leaked in January this year, which had showed unemployment to be at a 45-year high.

The leaked report had triggered a major controversy, with the opposition parties slamming the government for its failure to create jobs and withholding the jobs report. The government had said that the report was only a “draft” and not final.

The report released on Friday by the National Statistics Office (NSO) said the new labour force survey needs to be seen as a new series for measuring employment and unemployment on annual basis.

“This is a new design and uses new metric and it would be unfair to compare it with the past,” Pravin Srivastava, the country’s chief statistician told reporters while releasing the report, a day after the Narendra Modi government was sworn-in. He denied that there was any political pressure to delay releasing the report.

The report showed the female unemployment rate in 2017-18 was at 5.7% while that for males was at 6.2%. The jobless rate for females in urban areas was in double digits at 10.8% while it was at 7.1% for males. In rural areas, the unemployment rate was at 5.8% for males and at 3.8% for females.

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