Engineers, teachers, accountants: Biggest job loss among salaried employees

Employment in the category of white collar professional employees and other employees has been rising steadily since 2016 when the survey began tracking them

We have chronicled job losses during the lockdown since late March 2020. Weekly labour statistics released by CMIE provide three broad ratios: The labour participation rate, the unemployment rate and the employment rate. These alerted us to the sharp deterioration in labour markets in the first week of April, i.e. within a fortnight of the lockdown. Weekly data does not provide absolute values. These are provided in the monthly releases.

Monthly data releases provide absolute values of labour force, employment and unemployment, and their breakup into broad categories of age, gender, occupation, religion and caste besides the various associated ratios.