The government Thursday admitted바카라 웹사이트in the Rajya Sabha that there has been a data leak of unemployment figures and said efforts were being made to ascertain who was behind it.
Replying to queries during Question Hour, Minister of바카라 웹사이트State for Planning and Statistics Rao Inderjit Singh termed바카라 웹사이트the issue as "serious" and said data pertaining to unemployment figures was leaked ahead of its announcement in바카라 웹사이트May this year.
He also informed members that the government has changed the methodology for바카라 웹사이트 ascertaining unemployment rates as a periodic survey is now being held every year based on
quarterly data, against the five-year surveys earlier.
"It is right that there was a data leak. Our survey바카라 웹사이트result was to come out on May 30, 2019, but before that the바카라 웹사이트data was leaked. We have taken this very seriously. Maybe someone has an agenda behind it and the data was leaked. We바카라 웹사이트are making efforts to ascertain who was behind the leak," the바카라 웹사이트minister told members.
He said employment and unemployment rate surveys used to be held once in five years. "This government deemed it fit to바카라 웹사이트carry out a periodic survey every year," he said.
Singh said some changes were also made in the methodology바카라 웹사이트and technology was used and that is why there is a difference바카라 웹사이트in previous surveys done by NSSO.바카라 웹사이트
He said the 2.2 unemployment rate would have been same as바카라 웹사이트brought out by the NSSO earlier if it was made out for five years, but this has increased both in rural and urban areas as
the methodology has changed.
"The new model for labour employment and unemployment is different from early methods and you cannot compare apples바카라 웹사이트with oranges.
"The new method now is a yearly method taking into account quarterly surveys. The only comparability that can happen is when the next year data comes. At present, it was compared to 6.1 per cent and the yearly data cannot be compared with the 5-year figure," he said.
The minister said the government takes unemployment very바카라 웹사이트"very seriously" and to alleviate the unemployment scenario,바카라 웹사이트the government has taken a number of steps.바카라 웹사이트
Listing out some examples, he said the prime minister's바카라 웹사이트employment generation programme itself has catered to바카라 웹사이트employment of 14.3 lakh till November 30, 2018, the Deen Dayal Gramin Kaushal Yojna has helped 4.73 lakh people get jobs,바카라 웹사이트MNREGA over past 3.5 to 4 has helped 972.99 person employment바카라 웹사이트days.
"Taking into account the seriousness of the matter, the government has set up a cabinet committee on employment and skill development to ensure that more people get jobs," he said.
In his written reply, the minister said, this Ministry has launched a new regular Employment-Unemployment survey, namely, Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) during 2017-18 with certain changes in survey methodology, data collection바카라 웹사이트mechanism and sampling design vis- vis the earlier quinquennial (once in every five years) Employment and Unemployment surveys of NSSO.
These differences in methodology put certain limitations in respect of comparability of results of PLFS with results of바카라 웹사이트the earlier quinquennial surveys on Employment Unemployment conducted by NSS, he said.
"Based on the first estimates, available from the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS), released on 31st May 2019, the unemployment rate in usual status is 6.1 per cent,"바카라 웹사이트 said.
(PTI)
