PLFS Bulletin August 2026: LFPR Rises to 55.6 Per Cent

The correct answer is 55.6 per cent, which is the overall Labour Force Participation Rate reported for the month, up from the reading of the previous month. The distractors here are all real numbers from the same bulletin, which is exactly how a paper setter builds a question on a statistical release, so each one has to be placed correctly. Option A is the overall Worker Population Ratio, not the participation rate, and it is described in the bulletin as the highest level since March of the same year. Option C is the rural participation rate, which is always higher than the national figure because village participation is stronger. Option D is the urban participation rate, which stayed unchanged from the previous month. Learn the three headline numbers as a set and attach each to the right label.

The correct answer is the National Statistical Office under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation. The bulletin describes the survey as the primary source of data on activity participation and on employment and unemployment conditions of the population. Option A is wrong because the central bank publishes monetary and banking statistics, not this labour survey, though the bulletin does note that the latest services sector data comes from that source in trade releases. Option B is wrong because the policy think tank does not run household surveys of this kind. Option D is a strong distractor, since that body has historically compiled labour statistics, but the survey in question is not its product. Remember the pairing of survey and agency along with the monthly bulletin series, which reached its seventeenth issue with the August reading.

The correct answer is 4.1 per cent, and the bulletin adds the detail that makes it memorable: this is the lowest rural reading since January of the same year. Option B is the rural rate of the previous month, from which the figure declined, so it is the trap for anyone who remembers the direction of change but not the endpoint. Option C is the overall unemployment rate for the month, covering rural and urban areas together, which stayed broadly stable. Option D is the urban rate, which was slightly above the previous month and is always higher than the rural one in this series. A useful way to hold these numbers is to rank them: rural lowest, overall in the middle and urban highest, with the gap between village and town explaining much of the national average.