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Survey On Unemployment In India

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  • Published on: 25-Feb-16
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Survey On Unemployment In India
  • The National Sample Survey Office has released the details of a survey conducted to assess the unemployment rate across the country.
  • The unemployment rate in urban areas reduced from 4.5% in 2004-05 to 3.4% in 2011-12. In rural areas, the rate has been stable at around 1.7% during this period.
  • According to this survey which was conducted in 2011-12, The unemployment rate across all the religious groups in rural areas was on the lower side than those in urban areas for both males and females.
  • Christians have the highest rate of unemployment in both rural (4.5%) and urban (5.9%) areas in 2011-12.
  • Unemployment level in India is highest among those people who are richer and more educated. The reason is that poor people can’t afford to stay unemployed, and hence, opt for any kind of work, irrespective of the nature of the job. The better off have the capacity to be unemployed as they look for the right job. Christians are the most educated group, hence unemployment rate is higher among them.
  • Among the persons of age 15 and above, the proportion of people who are not literates was the lowest for Christians. Also, the proportion of persons with educational level secondary and above is highest for Christians.
  • While the unemployment rate in rural areas has decreased for Sikhs (from 3.5 to 1.3%) — now the lowest across all religious groups — it has slightly increased for Muslims (from 2.3 to 2.6%). At 3.3%, Hindus have the lowest unemployment rate in urban areas.
  • Self-employment is the major source of income for almost half the households, across all religious groups, in rural areas, followed by casual labour.
  • The Labour Force Participation (LFP) remains the poorest for Muslims in the country. Labour force, or the “economically active”, refers to the population that supplies or seeks to supply labour for production of goods and services and therefore, includes both the “employed” and the “unemployed”.
  • The LFP in rural India is 406 per 1000 individuals and 367 in urban areas. For Muslims, however, it is abysmally low at 337 in rural and 342 in urban areas. Of those who are employed in rural areas, a majority are self-employed — 54.5 per cent rural males and 59.3 per cent rural females.
  • In urban areas, the proportion of households deriving major income from regular wage or salary earnings is the highest. Half the Muslim households in urban areas have self-employment as major source of income, the highest among all religions, while regular wage or salary earnings was the highest for Christians with 45.8% households.

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