Govt starts monthly job data, may junk labour bureau's quarterly survey

With the 2019 general elections, the government is under pressure to substantiate job creation in the economy

The Union government has begun the process to do away with the only official enterprise-based quarterly jobs survey and has started releasing monthly payroll data for employment in the formal sector.

This is a part of the government’s efforts to overhaul official employment estimates.

Prime Minister’s Principal Secretary Nripendra Misra chaired a meeting with top bureaucrats on April 18 to discuss the roadmap for collecting employment data. The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has decided to set up a panel, led by former chief statistician T C A Anant, to deliberate on whether the enterprise-level quarterly data, which is released by