Which body conducts the Periodic Labour Force Survey in India?
- A.The Reserve Bank of India
- B.The National Statistics Office under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation
- C.NITI Aayog
- D.The Ministry of Labour and Employment
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Explanation
The correct answer is the National Statistics Office under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation. That office has been conducting the Periodic Labour Force Survey since 2017, and the survey has steadily widened to meet the demand for labour market statistics that arrive sooner and can be broken down further. Its sampling design was revamped from January 2025 so that monthly, quarterly and annual estimates became possible along with indicators below the state level, and from January 2026 data on digital platform workers has been gathered on an experimental footing. Option A names the central bank, which publishes a great deal of economic data but does not run this household survey. Option C names the government's policy think tank, which uses such statistics in its reports but does not collect them through field survey work of this kind. Option D is the most tempting wrong answer, because labour is the subject matter of the survey, but the ministry that frames labour policy is not the agency that designs the sample, canvasses the schedules and publishes the estimates.
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Practice Questions
From which month will the modified sampling design and schedule of the Periodic Labour Force Survey take effect?
- A.January 2025
- B.January 2026
- C.January 2027
- D.April 2027
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The modified sampling design, the changed estimation procedure and the revised schedule all take effect from that month, when fresh samples for the two-year period 2027-2028, known as Panel 6, will be drawn from an updated sampling frame.
Read the full explanation →Under the revised design, how many Second Stage Strata will there be and how many households will be canvassed in each First Stage Unit?
- A.Four rural and five urban strata, with 14 households per First Stage Unit
- B.Five rural and four urban strata, with 12 households per First Stage Unit
- C.Three rural and three urban strata, with 16 households per First Stage Unit
- D.Four rural and four urban strata, with 15 households per First Stage Unit
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A new Second Stage Stratum based on digital platform work is being introduced because experience showed that the earlier arrangement did not capture an adequate number of such workers, while the rest of the stratum structure and composition is retained.
Read the full explanation →How large is the inpatient department at the AIIA main campus in Sarita Vihar?
- A.100 beds
- B.150 beds
- C.200 beds
- D.500 beds
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The clinical infrastructure at the institute main campus in Sarita Vihar, New Delhi, has an outpatient department able to attend to about 3,000 patients a day and an inpatient wing of that bed strength for people who need admission.
Read the full explanation →Under which ministry does the All India Institute of Ayurveda function as an autonomous institution?
- A.Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
- B.Ministry of Ayush
- C.Ministry of Science and Technology
- D.Ministry of Education
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The All India Institute of Ayurveda in New Delhi is an autonomous institution under that ministry, and its stated work is healthcare, education, research and innovation in Ayurveda along with building recognition for India traditional systems of medicine.
Read the full explanation →According to its decade report, how many patients did AIIA treat between October 2016 and September 2026?
- A.17,74,524
- B.27,74,524
- C.37,74,524
- D.47,74,524
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The correct answer is 37,74,524 patients, the figure the institute recorded for the ten years from October 2016 to September 2026 across its main campus and its affiliated and outreach centres.
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