CMIE Data

Employment among industrial workers increased further by about a million in the January-April 2022 Wave

Expectations play an important role in decision-making. Enterprises and the financial markets, for example, allocate funds that reflect their expectations

It may be useful to note that the 8.8 million increase in April comes after a 12 million fall during the preceding three months: CMIE

The labour force increased by 8.8 million - from 428.4 million in March 2022 to 437.2 million in April 2022

Economists on Tuesday are not convinced about the latest monthly unemployment data released by the Centre for Monitoring India Economy (CMIE), particularly about the statistics of the rural areas.

Now, more than half of the 900 million Indians of legal working age -- roughly the population of the US and Russia combined -- don't want a job, according to the CMIE

In 2022, India will record the fifth consecutive year of bumper wheat crop

Though there is no direct evidence that unemployed youth are drawn into furthering the communal agenda, they have lately erupted in job-related agitations for reservations and inclusion in OBC lists

The decline in the LPR reflects the inadequacy of the growth in employment opportunities

Their value is higher than it was in December, as well as in the same quarter last year

In 2019-20, the poorest households accounted for 9.8% of all the households and only 3.2% of all the unemployed

Consumer sentiments had fallen by 15.7 per cent between March and June 2021 - the period of the second wave of Covid-19. The recovery since June has more than covered that fall

Jobs held by graduates and post-graduates (graduates-plus) were increasing steadily till the pandemic

The improvement in sentiments during the early months of 2022 essentially reflects an increase in the proportion of households that believe that their current household incomes are better than they we

The delinking of activities from employment status allows a better understanding of what the unemployed do, or as CPHS informs us, what is the nature of occupation of the unemployed

Consumer sentiment has been, by far, the most sluggish economic indicator in the post-lockdown recovery story so far

Employment did not exp­and to absorb the unemplo­yed in January. On the contr­ary, it shrank by 3.3 million

At 60.3, the index was at its highest in November 2021 since its fall in April 2020 following the Covid-induced lockdown

State's education performance has also slipped in the last five years

In each of the last three months - October, November and December 2021, the unemployment rate has been at 7 per cent or more