A small recovery in the labour force holds out a hope

Employment during the September-December 2017 period was 0.58 million higher than it was in the preceding Wave of May-August 2017

The September-December 2017 Wave of CMIE's Consumer Pyramids Household Survey concluded on December 31. During a Wave, the entire sample (168,161 households in the present case) are surveyed over a four month period. The survey just completed took observations of the employment/unemployment status of 436,000 individuals from the sample households, who were of 15 years of age or more as of the date of the survey.

Estimates derived from this data-set are the most robust.

The final estimates of employment / unemployment based on this survey became available on January 15. A complete statistical profile with state-level rural-urban details is