Listed companies employed record 10 million in 2021-22: CMIECMIE used a set of around 3,300 listed companies for which data was available for 2021-22 and created ten sets of companies by the size of ...
Index of consumer sentiments rose by a robust 7.1% to a 30-month high in September: CMIEAs per the CMIE’s Consumer Pyramids Household Survey (CPHS), the unemployment rate dropped to a four-year low of 6.3% and the index of cons...
View: Making a case for regulating alcohol consumption and eliminating illicit brewsStates should assign higher priority to revamping their excise administration and policing. Moreover, the capability of the health system i...
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 ...
Share of agriculture sector in employment sees steady increase: CMIECMIE data from the consumer pyramid household survey shows the share of agriculture in total employment has gone up from 35.3% in 2017-18 t...
View: Trashing the Kerala model has become an Olympic sport despite facts and figuresThe social indices of Kerala are at par with the western democracies and the social capital of the state is something that comes to its res...
"Bias it is": CMIE chief's defence of CPHS survey elicits fresh critical response from Jean Drèze, Anmol Somanchi"The representativeness of CPHS data cannot be assumed from the survey methodology. It must be scrutinised through comparisons with other c...
View: There are practical limitations in CMIE's CPHS sampling, but no biasCPHS is a household survey of a nationally representative sample in the sense that it is selected through a process of multistage stratific...
View: New barometer of India’s economy fails to reflect deprivations of poor householdsFar from being nationally representative, CMIE's Consumer Pyramid Household Survey is heavily biased towards better-off households, and qui...
View: It's time for CMIE to rethink how they determine labour market dataThe strong positive correlation between CPHS’ urban unemployment rate and real GDP, and the simultaneous negative correlation between real ...
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...
COVID: Rs 8 lakh crore package needed to support lower income groups, says reportAs per the calculations based on CMIE-CPHS data, the report said, around 23 crore people are estimated to have fallen below the national mi...
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.
Wage bill of listed companies could be up by 3-4% in first half of this fiscal: CMIEIn the first quarter of 2020-21, which ended in June 2020, the nominal wage bill for listed companies was up by 2.2%, the lowest year-on-ye...
Workers below 30 years of age saw significant job losses during lockdown: CMIEHowever, employment of young women has been most hit during the lockdown period with men to women ratio deteriorating to 9.1 during April-J...
8.78% unemployment estimate for 2018-19 conservative compared to PLFS: CMIEExplaining the rationale behind this, Mahesh Vyas of CMIE said, the current weekly status is more relevant as a whole as it has less recall...
Over one-third of Indian households may run out of resources in another week: CMIE SurveyCMIE's study on lockdown says nearly 84% of households have suffered a decrease in monthly income.