Minister of State for Planning and Statistics Rao Inderjit Singh termed the issue as "serious" and said data pertaining to unemployment fig...

As per NSSO's explosive revelation, key data used to compute GDP under the new method were dodgy.

India had a joblessness rate of 6.1% in 2017-18, a huge jump over the 2.2% registered in 2011-12, a report says.

The senior government official's comments come against the backdrop of as many as 108 economists and social scientists alleged "political i...

The government says that 1-12% nominal economic growth can’t happen if employment didn’t grow.

The NSSO under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation has completed the data collection related to consumer expenditure su...

The method would include creating dedicated cells in 15-20 ministries, responsible for data collection and hiring professionals to exclusiv...

The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) is going to conduct a field survey on 'Swachh Bharat Mission' to collect data from the households ...

The two main parties have got into a fight over job creation, a critical issue given the number of young people who will be looking to vote...

Unemployment among Muslims is going down, marking an encouraging trend to gladden the champions of inclusive growth.

"I don't believe that we can come to an unambiguous conclusion on the basis of NSSO data", Ahluwalia said.

According to Planning Commission's estimates, poverty ratio was at 29.8% in 09-10 as per the Tendulkar Committee methodology.

The NSSO on Wednesday released the provisional findings of its 68th round capturing monthly consumption expenditure across India.

Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Tuesday blamed faulty data provided by NSSO for the low poverty threshold in the country.

Former chief statistician says the government's latest employment survey showing a relative decline in the labour force could be flawed.

On the whole, the new indices would be more reflective of price trends. However, questions of data integrity will remain.

It is in the interest of larger community of data users to know NSSO data sets and limits under which they must be used.