Official monthly jobs data from FY26

Urban joblessness during July-September 2024 stood at 6.4%, compared with 6.6% in the same period last year

- Zia Haq

Official data on job creation and unemployment will be available every month, likely from April next year, as the government has signed off a proposal to increase the frequency of the Periodic Labour Force Survey, or PLFS, the statistics ministry's quarterly assessment of the labour market, two officials said.

On 13 August, Hindustan Times reported that the Rao Inderjit Singh-headed Union ministry of statistics and programme implementation, as part of a series of reforms, had decided to conduct the PLFS more frequently than it currently does.

Aside from putting out PLFS-based urban-jobs data on a three-monthly basis, the ministry currently also publishes an annual PLFS report that contains data on rural employment-unemployment scenarios.