Urban unemployment rate in April-June, the first quarter of this fiscal, slid to 6.6 per cent, the quarterly bulletin of Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) on Monday showed. Even though the unemployment rate for urban areas, which was at the lowest level since the launch of the PLFS bulletin in 2018, nearly 14 states recorded a higher urban unemployment rate than the national average.
For males, the urban unemployment rate, based on current weekly status for persons above 15 years, declined to 5.9 per cent in the April-June quarter from 6.0 per cent in the previous quarter and 7.1 per cent in the year-ago period. For females also the unemployment rate eased to 9.1 per cent in April-June from 9.2 per cent in the previous quarter and 9.5 per cent in the year-ago period. Employment of both males and females, however, increased in self-employed categories such as own account worker, helper in household enterprise.
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