India's unemployment lowest in six months at 6.80% in July: CMIERural unemployment declined 6.14 per cent to 272.1 million last month from 265.2 million or 8.03 per cent in June, it said. On the other ha...
02 Aug, 2022, 06.44 PM IST
Consumer sentiments fall sharply in May-end, more in rural than urbanAccording to the CMIE data, the index of consumer sentiments (ICS) tanked by 9.4% in the week ended May 29. While the ICS fell by 5.9% in u...
02 Jun, 2022, 02.47 PM IST
Experts sceptical about CMIE's unemployment dataThe overall unemployment rate in India has increased to 7.83 per cent in April 2022 as compared to 7.60 per cent in the previous month, CMI...
04 May, 2022, 10.39 AM IST
Govt denies reports of decline in labour participation rateIn a statement released on Tuesday, the ministry of labour and employment said employment is the government's primary concern and that vari...
27 Apr, 2022, 12.58 AM IST
Middle-income households account for largest chunk of India's unemployed population: CMIEAccording to CMIE, the poorest households accounted for 9.8% of all the households and only 3.2% of all the unemployed before the pandemic ...
31 Mar, 2022, 02.33 PM IST
Consumer sentiment improves in January by 3.9% after a dip in December: CMIECMIE data shows that the average weekly index of consumer sentiments in the three weeks that ended on January 9, 16 and 23 was 59.9 and the...
27 Jan, 2022, 03.18 PM IST
Consumer sentiment likely to witness fall in December: CMIEAs per the CMIE data, the weekly index of consumer sentiments for the week ended December 26 stood at 55.1 while the 30-day moving average ...
30 Dec, 2021, 02.35 PM IST
Consumer sentiment improves after steep fall in April-May period: CMIECMIE data shows the cumulative fall in consumer sentiments in urban India during the months of April and May 2021 was 7.9% while it was muc...
18 Jun, 2021, 07.43 AM IST
Phased unlocking to help recover two-thirds of lost jobs: CMIEAs per the CMIE data, while the labour participation rate fell further to 39.7% as on June 6 compared to 40%, the employment rate dropped f...
10 Jun, 2021, 03.00 PM IST
CMIE CEO Mahesh Vyas on why govt's employment data smell test smells fishyIndependent testing of data is of critical importance to a young database like CPHS. CMIE is grateful to all those who test the data. In th...
08 Jun, 2021, 11.55 PM IST
Fresh lockdowns push India jobless rate to over 8% in first two weeks of April: CMIEAs of March 2021, employment in India stood at 398 million, which is 5.4 million short of the 403.5 million employed in 2019-20 with the bi...
15 Apr, 2021, 03.52 PM IST
Consumer sentiment fails to keep up with rising income: CMIECMIE data shows the index of consumer sentiments stood at 55.1 in February, half the pre-lockdown levels. Consumer sentiment index stood at...
11 Mar, 2021, 02.52 PM IST
A tale of two methodologies: Which dataset captures the real picture of the labour market?As the survey methodologies are different for PLFS and CMIE, it is useful to compare the datasets and undertake some simple smell tests.
27 Feb, 2021, 12.29 AM IST
Higher job losses faced by those below 40 years of age not good for recovery: CMIEWorst still, job losses were concentrated in urban regions, among women, among the relatively younger workers, the graduates and post gradu...
15 Jan, 2021, 03.57 PM IST
Rural employment falls, employment rate in urban India stays lowCMIE data shows that the gap between the monthly employment rate in 2020-21 and the corresponding month of 2019-20 narrowed consistently ti...
22 Oct, 2020, 11.46 PM IST
Rise in unemployment rate weakening India's labour market recovery, says CMIEAccording to CMIE, keeping the employment rate from slipping is challenging. “To merely keep the employment rate unchanged, the economy has...
22 Oct, 2020, 12.20 PM IST
Recovery in employment rate slows down in July at 1.7 percentage points: CMIECMIE data for the week ended August 2 showed the employment rate in July stood at 37.6%, which it says is much lower than what it was durin...
06 Aug, 2020, 01.56 PM IST