Centre revamps PLFS, includes rural jobs data
The Union Government has decided to revamp the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS), started in 2017, to include employment and unemployment data from rural areas too.
The Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation (MoSPI) said on Wednesday that the coverage of the PLFS will now be enhanced and the sampling design revamp will address the requirement of high frequency labour market indicators.
MoSPI added that the revamped PLFS will estimate key employment and unemployment indicators such as Labour Force Participation Rate, Worker Population Ratio, Unemployment Rate on a monthly basis for rural and urban areas at all-India level in the Current Weekly Status (CWS). These indicators, for urban areas alone, have been released quarterly.
Going forward, the PLFS coverage will be extended to rural areas producing quarterly estimates at the country level and for major States in the CWS.
'It will also estimate important employment and unemployment indicators in both usual status (ps+ss) and CWS in rural and urban areas annually,' the Ministry said. Usual Status (ps+ss) and CWS refers to frameworks to determine activity status of person surveyed based on reference periods of one year and last seven days preceding the date of survey, respectively.
The revamped PLFS sample design was initiated from from January, 2025 and the first monthly bulletin of PLFS for April, 2025 is scheduled to be released this month. 'The first quarterly bulletin of PLFS covering both rural and urban areas for April-June, 2025 is slated to be released in August, 2025,' the Ministry said.
In the revamped PLFS sample, a sample size of 22,692 First Stage Units (FSUs) will be surveyed (12,504 FSUs in rural areas and 10,188 in urban areas) every year of the two-year panel with first visit schedule compared with 12,800 FSUs surveyed in PLFS till December, 2024.
'12 households will be surveyed from each of the selected FSUs, which implies an overall sample size of around 2,72,304 households. This marks a 2.65 time increase in sample households to be covered in PLFS compared with the number of sample households covered up to December, 2024 (which was around 1,02,400). The enhanced sample size is expected to provide reliable estimates of labour market indicators with improved precision,' MoSPI said.
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