-The Indian Express
That primary employment is rising is a reason for hope. Understanding the contours of this change will show the way to accelerate changes that create opportunities
Employment has been the subject of much argument over the past few years and it appears that it will continue to be so. We conducted a simple exercise: To understand how employment patterns are changing over time, we used the comparable PLFS and NSSO data of surveys conducted in 2004-5, 2011-12 and 2017-18. And within that, we analysed the employment reported as per usual primary status.
But first, the methodology. Within the ambit of the NSS surveys, there are two methods of calculating employment and unemployment. The usual primary method and the usual primary subsidiary method. We use the former, some others use the latter. There is nothing extraordinary about what we do and what others do, except that our aggregate results differ. Note that only the aggregate results differ, the patterns don’t, because we primarily look at the underlying patterns that make up the whole, while others concentrate on the aggregate figures — be they related to employment or the other side of the coin, unemployment.
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