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Periodic Labour Force Survey
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- The Periodic Labour Force Survey for 2020-21 was released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation.
- The unemployment rate saw a decrease of 0.6% and fell to 4.2% in 2020-21, compared with 4.8% in 2019-20.
- Rural areas recorded an unemployment rate of 3% and urban areas recorded an unemployment rate of 6.7%.
- The National Statistical Office (NSO) uses “rotational panel sampling design” in urban areas to assess the Labour Force Participation Rate (LFPR), Worker Population Ratio (WPR) and the unemployment rate
- And it visits selected households in urban areas four times.
- The LFPR, the percentage of persons in the labour force (that is, working or seeking work or available for work) in the population was 6% during 2020-21.
- It was 40.1% in the previous year.
- The WPR was 39.8%, an increase from 38.2% of the previous year.
- The migration rate is 28.9%.
- The migration rate among women was 48% and 47.8% in rural and urban areas.
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