Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS), Key Employment Unemployment Indicators for (January 2024 - December 2024)

A rotational panel sampling design will be used in urban area. The rotational scheme will be of two years duration to accommodate the changes in the urban frame in the intracensal period; in the sense that the sampling frames for both rural and urban areas will remain unchanged for every two-year duration. In this rotational panel scheme each selected household in urban areas will be visited four times – one with first visit schedule and other three with revisit schedule. The estimates can be given for successive quarters without any break in the series (starting from thefifth quarter), ensuring a 75% matching betwee n consecutive quarters. Regression based estimat es will not be generated. Instead, usual traditional design based estimates will begenerated. The proposed design aims at generating quarterly estimates of level and change parameters of some important labour force indicators (LFPR, WPR & UR) based on CWS data in urban areas and annual estimates of level parameters based on usual status for both rural and urban areas in the line of employment & unemployment survey of NSS quinquennial round.

Rotational panel design for urban areas

i. The rotational panel will be for two years, where only 25% FSUs of urban annual allocation will be covered in the first quarter (Panel P41) of the fourth two year panel with detail listing and canvassing of visit 1 schedule in the selected households; where Pij indicates the panel belonging to jth quarter of the ith two-year period of rotation.
ii. Another 25% FSUs will be covered in the second quarter (Panel P42) for taking up visit 1 schedule and revisit schedule will be anvassed in the selected households of Panel P41.
iii. A new panel P43 of 25% FSUs will be surveyed in third quarter with visit 1 schedule and revisit schedules will be canvassed in the households of panels P41 & P42.
iv. In the fourth quarter, households of panels P41, P42 & P43 will be surveyed with revisit schedule and a new panel P44 with 25% FSUs for visit 1 schedule.
v. In the subsequent quarters of second year of the third two year panel, 75% FSUs (3 panels – P42, P43 & P44) will be common and an earlier panel (P41) will be replaced by a new panel (P45) for canvassing visit 1 schedule. This will continue till 8th quarter of the fourth two year panel.
vi. All the FSUs of the panels P41, P42, ...., P48 (each of which is with 25% of FSUs) will be selected before commencement of survey in the first quarter.
vii. At the end of the second year of each two-year duration, updated frame will be used for both rural and urban areas.
viii. FSUs of another set of panels P51, P52, ..., P58 s elected from the updated frame will be madeready before commencement of first quarter of fifth two year panel. These panels P51 to P58 will take care of the changes in the urban frame during the intracensal period.
ix. In the ninth quarter (first quarter of fifth two year panel), panel P51 selected from theupdated frame will be introduced and the panels P46, P47 and P48 of the old frame will besurveyed.
x. This scheme will continue for another 2 years with the introduction of panels P52 to P58 each in one quarter for the subsequent 7 quarters till the end of the fifth two year panel.
xi. Since major changes in the rural-urban frame occurs in the Census years, provision is to be made to generate estimates without break in the series of estimates considering panels from pre and post-census frames.