Measures of

unemployment
By Ankush
 • unemployment, the condition of
one who is capable of working,
actively seeking work, but
unable to find any work.

What is
unemployment?
 • The unemployment rate is calculated by
expressing the number of unemployed
persons as a percentage of the total
The measures of number of persons in the labour force. .
These costs are influenced by the extent of
unemployment the unemployment, duration of the
unemployment and the cause of the
unemployment.

These are developed by

national survey
organisation(NSSO)
 Count those in receipt of
unemployment- related
The two major ways of benefits and
measuring unemployment
are :-

Carry out labour force

surveys
 • The Claimant Count records the
number of people claiming
unemployment-related benefits.
The series has been used as a
main indicator of labour market
Claimant count activity since the 1970's and
figures are derived from records
of claimants held at Job Benefit
Offices.
 • A measure of unemployment
which counts as unemployed
people who identify as such in a
survey. This is also called as ILO.
This involves conducting regular
Labour force surveys of a proportion of house
survey measure holds which asks adults about
their employment status.
 • Unemployment Rate in
India averaged 8.35 percent
from 2018 until 2022, reaching
an all-time high of 23.50 percent
in April of 2020 and a record low
Real world of 6.50 percent in November of
example 2020.
• The cause of the unemployment
was covid-19
• This is measured by
those two measures