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Urban Unemployment Rate (Quarterly Bulletin)

Labour & Employment · NSO Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) — mospi.gov.in · data as of 2026-06-30

Latest value

  • Urban Unemployment Rate (Quarterly Bulletin): 6.7%
  • As of: 2026-06-30

What it measures

Unemployment Rate for urban areas only, from PLFS's quarterly urban bulletin — a faster but not directly comparable read on urban labour-market conditions between annual reports.

How it is calculated

Uses the Current Weekly Status (CWS) approach on an urban-only sample, released quarterly — a different activity-status window than the Usual Status approach used in the annual report, so the two series are not directly comparable.

Release and revisions

Published: Quarterly

Quarterly

Revisions: Released quarterly, with roughly a one-quarter lag.

Source: Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), National Statistical Office (NSO)

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