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logoSUPPORThomePOLITICS ECONOMY EXTERNAL AFFAIRS SECURITY CULTURE OPINION VIDEO ANALYSIS MEDIA GOVERNMENT WORLD EDITOR'S PICK TOP STORIES LIVE WIRE SCIENCEEconomyWhy the NSSO Employment Surveys Shouldn't Have Been Done Away WithThe new PERIODIC labour force surveys, while welcome, will create a situation where there would be no data system to compare the PRESENT with the past.Aug 25, 2018 | Sona Mitra

In a recent interview, PRIME Minister Narendra Modi apparently said, “more than a lack of jobs, the issue is a lack of data on jobs”.

For those of us who have been using the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) data on employment and unemployment for decades now, such a statement comes as a surprise as almost all research on several aspects of Indian labour markets has been based on data provided by the NSSO employment-unemployment surveys (EUS). Even field-based studies use the NSSO-EUS for their background research.

There, of course, exists other sources of data on employment and unemployment, those available from the economic census (establishment surveys) – Census of India, Annual Survey of Industries, the Directorate General of Employment and Training (DGET) – but these suffer from limited coverage and therefore are not representative. The Census of India although provides exhaustive estimates of workers under the broad categories of rural-urban, male-female, main-marginal and a few others once in a decade, it does not provide detailed information like the household surveys.

Unfortunately, in a recent move by the government, the NSSO-EUS has been officially discontinued since the last available figures for the 68th Round (2011-12). It is thus a fact that post-2011-12, we do not have any EXTENSIVE information on the labour market situation in India.

If we consider the six rounds of annual employment-unemployment surveys conducted by the Labour Bureau under the aegis of the Ministry of Labour and Employment since 2010-11, which have been somewhat similar in size and methodology to the NSSO-EUS from its third round (2013-14), even those have not been continued after 2015-16.

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