Unemployment fee in city areas rose to 13.3% in July-Sept 2020: Labour survey

Amid Covid, unemployment fee in city areas shot as much as 13.3 per cent in July-September 2020 from 8.4 per cent within the corresponding interval a yr in the past, the quarterly Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) launched by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) on Monday confirmed.
Urban unemployment was recorded at 20.9 per cent in April-June 2020, 9.1 per cent in January-March 2020, 7.9 per cent in October-December 2019, 8.4 per cent in July-September 2019 and eight.9 per cent in April-June 2019.
Urban unemployment within the age group 15-29 years was 27.7 per cent in July-September 2020 as towards 20.6 per cent in July-September 2019 and 34.7 per cent in April-June. Female unemployment fee was recorded at 15.8 per cent in July-September, up from 9.7 per cent within the corresponding interval a yr in the past and however decrease than 21.2 per cent within the earlier quarter. For city males, it was at 12.6 per cent in July-September as towards 8.0 per cent in July-September 2019 and 20.8 per cent within the earlier April-June quarter.
As per the survey, labour drive participation fee for all ages was 37 per cent in July-September 2020, up from 36.8 per cent in the identical interval a yr in the past. It was 35.9 per cent in April-June 2020. Workforce Participation Rate stood at 32.1 per cent in July-September 2020, down from 33.7 per cent in the identical interval a yr in the past. It was 28.4 per cent in April-June 2020.
Unemployment information for city areas is launched quarterly primarily based on present weekly standing. This dataset differs from the Annual Report of Periodic Labour Force Survey, which covers each rural and concrete areas and provides estimates of employment and unemployment in each traditional standing (ps+ss) and CWS. The estimate of unemployed individuals in CWS give a median image of unemployment in a brief interval of seven days through the survey interval. In the CWS strategy, an individual is taken into account unemployed if he/she didn’t work even for 1 hour on any day through the week however sought or was obtainable for work no less than for 1 hour on any day through the interval.

The fieldwork for PLFS was suspended from March 18, 2020 however was then resumed on June 1, 2020. The schedules within the fieldwork have been undertaken in telephonic mode, which was adopted to be able to minimise the bodily interplay with informants resulting from Covid-19 pandemic, it stated.
The pattern measurement was the bottom in comparison with the earlier 4 quarters and consisted of 1.70 lakh folks and 43,257 households within the July-September quarter in contrast with 1.71 lakh folks and 43,269 households in April-June.