India’s capitalists have deployed one strategy after another to ensure that they have at their disposal a large labour force ...

The survey found that the unemployment rate among people aged 15 years and above in urban areas stood at the 6.4 per cent, ...

The country’s economic future depends on harnessing the power of data. Strengthening the National Sample Survey (NSS) can ...

Government data shows that the share of people averse to the surveys conducted by the NSO more than doubled in five years ...

The index of industrial production number will now be released on the 28th of every month capturing data for the previous ...

The index of industrial production data will be released on the 28th of each month instead of the 12th, reducing the time lag ...

At the second edition of BS Manthan, Business Standard's annual flagship summit, experts will debate whether agriculture is ...

The equal participation of women in the labour force can boost India’s gross domestic product (GDP) by 27%, according to ...

Ramesh Kumar, an investigator or “data warrior” as they are better known to the fraternity, braved sub-zero temperatures in a Himalayan village to gather vital data on rural livelihoods. It is on the ...

Recent evidence from the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS), which is being conducted annually from 2017-18, is that FLFPR has increased in rural India, but more women are working as unpaid help ...

Starting April, India’s official statistical reporting on economic data is in for a significant overhaul with monthly surveys on the labour force, private sector capital investments and faster ...

The Indian economy’s growth is expected to slow in the 2024–25 fiscal year, casting a shadow over its aspirations of becoming ...