Unemployment in India over the years

• The unemployment rate in India is measured in three ways based on National Sample Survey (NSS) data
based on usual status (US), current weekly status (CWS) and current daily status (CDS).
The Indian labor force has been
officially classified by the Indian
government into three categories:

• Rural sector
• Urban formal sector
• Urban informal sector
Rural Sector
• Rural Sector includes farming and agricultural sector
• The rural and informal sectors of the Indian labour market accounted for 93% of the employment in 2011
Urban Sector
• Two kinds of unemployment: Industrial Unemployment and Educated Unemployment
• Industrial Unemployment- informal sector
• Educated Unemployment- formal sector
Underemployed and Working Poor
• Employed but are ‘severely’ underemployed
• ‘working poor’ earning only a fraction regarded as minimum necessary to overcome poverty
This category forms a large proportion of ‘employed’ worker: was estimated to be about 20 per cent in 1999-
2000 and 21 per cent in 2004-05 and in fact, constitutes the core part of the employment problem in India
Unemployment rate
defined percentage of the
number of persons unemployed
to the persons in the labour
force and indicates
unemployment situation in a
population.