Survey shows jobless nos at 45-year high in FY18 while government claims 7.8 million jobs created annually.

Statistics ministry, which began collecting data for the Periodic Labour Force Survey last year, plans to publish the national composite em...

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

In India, pockets of rural areas with usually low population density are spread all over the landscape, which makes data collection not onl...

The CSO had also estimated economic growth rate at 7.1 per cent in its first advance estimates for this fiscal released on January 6, 2017.

Between 2004-05 and 2009-10, a period that saw three successive years of 9%-plus growth, data from the NSSO showed virtually no growth in e...

The latest National Sample Survey Organisation report shows in 2011-12 the labour force's size was between 440 million and 484 million.

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...

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

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

The news comes amidst repeated criticism by analysts of the quality of official government data in recent months.

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

More than half of the country's overall workforce is self-employed, as per the data of a government survey released today.

The labour bureau this year plans to cover all 629 districts as opposed to only 300 last year and would interview 1 lakh respondents.

The socio-economic status of the nation’s 1.2 billion citizens is gauged by national sample surveys on consumer expenditure and employment.

An extensive exercise to map the large number of small & medium enterprise (SME) clusters in the country is likely to begin soon.

The government has finally woken up to the need for more accurate annual indicators of employment in the country and the nation's data coll...