{"id":7543,"date":"2025-10-27T11:56:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T06:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7543"},"modified":"2025-10-29T12:40:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T07:10:05","slug":"periodic-labour-force-survey-plfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/periodic-labour-force-survey-plfs\/","title":{"rendered":"Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Periodic Labour Force Survey<\/b> <b>Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the Monthly Bulletin of the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS), India&#8217;s unemployment rate fell to 5.2% in July 2025 from 5.6% in June 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Periodic Labour Force Survey<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It gives estimates of <\/span><b>key employment and unemployment indicators<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> like the Labour Force Participation Rate (LFPR), Worker Population Ratio (WPR), Unemployment Rate (UR), etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>sample design<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the Periodic Labour Survey (PLFS) has been <\/span><b>revamped from January 2025.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As part of revamping of the sample design monthly rotational panel scheme has been implemented for both rural and urban areas wherein each <\/span><b>selected household is visited four times in four consecutive months<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>The redesigned PLFS aims to achieve the following objectives<\/strong><\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To generate key <\/span><b>employment and unemployment indicators<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> every month <\/span><b>for both rural and urban areas<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at the all-India level under the Current Weekly Status (CWS).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To extend the <\/span><b>Quarterly PLFS results to rural areas,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> thereby producing quarterly estimates of labour market indicators for both rural and urban India under the CWS framework.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To provide annual estimates of key employment and unemployment indicators in both usual <\/span><b>status (ps+ss) and Current Weekly Status<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (CWS) for rural as well as urban areas.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This survey is <\/span><b>conducted by the National Sample Survey<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (NSO), working under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2157501\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PIB<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The periodic labour force survey is conducted by the National Sample Survey (NSO), working under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI). Read more about Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS), Findings, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2258],"class_list":{"0":"post-7543","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-periodic-labour-force-survey","9":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}