Sign In
Learn bits
Index & Reports
Mahesh

16/06/22 07:36 AM IST

Unemployment decreased

In News 
  • As per the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) for 2020-21 released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, the unemployment rate saw a decrease of 0.6% and fell to 4.2% in 2020-21, compared with 4.8% in 2019-20.
Major findings of the report 
  • Data show the rate of joblessness fell to 4.2% in 2020-21, compared with 4.8% earlier Rural areas recorded an unemployment rate of 3% and urban areas recorded an unemployment rate of 6.7%.
  • The Labour Force Participation Rate (LFPR)e., the percentage of persons in the labour force (that is, working or seeking work or available for work) in the population was 41.6% during 2020-21 (higher than 40.1% in 2019-20).
  • All-India female labour force participation rate (LFPR) in usual status has increased from 2.3% in 2021 to 25.1% as compared to 22.8% a year ago
  • Worker Population Ratio (the number of employed people per thousand people) was 39.8% (an increase from 38.2% of the previous year)
  • The migration rate, according to the survey, is 28.9%. The migration rate among women was 48% and 47.8% in rural and urban areas, respectively.
  • Migrants are defined as a household members whose last usual place of residence, at any time in the past, was different from the present place of enumeration.
  •  4.4% of migration happened due to employment, which is a drastic reduction from the 10% in 2011.
  • During the pandemic, reverse migration led to a higher rate of unemployment agglomeration in rural areas, which caused rural distress. However, the annual report on the unemployment rate shows a contradiction.
Source- PIB 

More Related Current Affairs View All

13 Jan

ISRO to attempt ‘docking’ satellites in space

'ISRO SpaDeX Docking Mission: Over the next few days, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will bring two small satellites closer together and then join them in space, dem

Read More

13 Jan

Pink fire retardant

'As multiple wildfires continue to torch Southern California recently, authorities are using planes to drop a large amount of bright pink fire retardant to curb the blaze.' Ni

Read More

13 Jan

Genome India project

'The Department of Biotechnology recently announced its new platform and framework for sharing its 10,000 human genome dataset.' The sequences of healthy individuals — fro

Read More

India’s First Ai-Driven Magazine Generator

Generate Your Custom Current Affairs Magazine using our AI in just 3 steps