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India is likely to increase the frequency of the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) from quarterly urban unemployment data to monthly, and the quarterly release of the rural employment data, which is released annually at present..
The ministry of statistics and programme implementation (MoSPI) is looking at ways to use technology to make the process more efficient and faster as it aims to reduce time lags and improve the frequency of data availability...
We are trying to reduce the time period between surveyssome can be made quarterly and monthly going ahead which are annual right now, said Saurabh Garg, secretary, MoSPI at the data user workshop on Household Consumption Expenditure Surveys (HCES) for 2022-23 Wednesday..
At the same event, Bibek Debroy, chairman, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister said that India needs a new estimate of poverty going forward as the estimate given by the Tendulkar committee is over a decade old...
