The Minister of State (Independent
Charge) for Statistics and Programme Implementation Shri Srikant Kumar Jena has
said that a Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) is being undertaken on Pilot
basis in the urban areas of three States. The State- wise sample sizes for the
survey for each quarter are indicated below:
State
|
Number of urban blocks
|
Number of households
|
Himachal
Pradesh
|
24
|
288
|
Odisha
|
72
|
864
|
Gujarat
|
192
|
2304
|
All
|
288
|
3456
|
In
a written reply in the Rajya Sabha
today Shri Jena said, the
field work of the Pilot Survey is being carried out in these States following a
rotational panel survey method. The objective of PLFS is to provide quarterly
estimates of lead indicators of Labour
Market such as Worker Population
Ratio (WPR), Labour Force Participation Rate (LFPR), Unemployment Rate (UR), Monthly Labour Remuneration for broad categories of workers,
etc.
The
pilot survey is undertaken to test and standardise the conceptual and
procedural aspects relating to the survey methodology being followed. Therefore, at present the details of the
indicators based on the data collected through the Pilot survey are not to be
utilised/ used for any policy and decision making.
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