The survey that has provided annual estimates of employment and unemployment in India since 2017 is the
- A.Periodic Labour Force Survey
- B.Annual Survey of Industries
- C.National Family Health Survey
- D.Economic Census
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Explanation
The correct answer is A, the Periodic Labour Force Survey. Begun in 2017, it replaced the five-yearly employment and unemployment surveys and gives annual estimates for rural and urban areas together along with more frequent estimates for urban areas, using the usual status and current weekly status measures. Option B is wrong because the Annual Survey of Industries collects data on registered factories, their output, capital and workers, and is not a household labour survey. Option C is wrong because the National Family Health Survey covers population, health and nutrition, including fertility and child mortality, not employment. Option D is wrong because the Economic Census counts establishments and the persons working in them at long intervals, and it cannot measure unemployment because it does not survey households at all.
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Practice Questions
View allWhich of the following organisations conducts the sample surveys for calculating the poverty line in India?
- A.Ministry of Finance
- B.RBI
- C.CSO
- D.NSSO
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The National Sample Survey Office carries out the large household surveys of consumption expenditure from which the number of people below the poverty line is worked out, and it now functions within the National Statistical Office under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation.
Read the full explanation →What is the term used for people who regularly move in and out of the poverty line?
- A.Occasionally poor
- B.Usually Poor
- C.Chronic poor
- D.Churning poor
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In the standard classification the churning poor are those whose consumption crosses the poverty line and falls back below it again and again, the typical cases being small and marginal farmers and casual labourers whose earnings depend on the season.
Read the full explanation →A situation in which more workers are engaged in a job than are actually required, so that withdrawing some of them does not reduce output, is called
- A.Frictional unemployment
- B.Disguised unemployment
- C.Cyclical unemployment
- D.Structural unemployment
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Here the extra workers appear to be employed but their marginal contribution to output is close to zero, which is why the condition is called disguised or hidden; the classic Indian example is a family farm on which several members work a plot that two could manage.
Read the full explanation →Under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, how many days of wage employment are guaranteed to a rural household in a financial year?
- A.50
- B.75
- C.100
- D.150
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The Act, passed in 2005, gives every rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work a legal right to one hundred days of wage employment in a financial year, and if work is not provided within the prescribed period the applicant becomes entitled to an unemployment allowance.
Read the full explanation →The expert group that in 2009 recommended dropping the calorie norm as the anchor of the poverty line was headed by
- A.D. T. Lakdawala
- B.Suresh Tendulkar
- C.C. Rangarajan
- D.Y. K. Alagh
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The Tendulkar expert group reported in 2009, moved away from the calorie anchor, used a mixed reference period for consumption and brought private spending on health and education into the basket, which raised the estimated share of the poor.
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