P C Mohanan

Efforts at providing robust data for unorganised sector, which plays an important role in livelihood and survival of the poor, has so far been half-hearted, producing no comparable evidence over time

In the concluding part, the authors say what is lost in discrediting the NSSO report is the story of change taking place in the economy and society

In the first of a two-part series, the authors dispel misgivings about the methodology used by NSSO in its Periodic Labour Force Survey