Dataset Overview

This dataset provides the unemployment rates for major religious groups in India, based on usual status (ps+ss). For years before 2017-18, the data was obtained in different quinquennial rounds of NSSO conducted from 2004-05 (NSS 61st) to 2011-12 (NSS 68th round). From 2017-18 the data is sourced from the annual report of the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) conducted by the Ministry of Statist...

Organisation

Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation

Sectors

Labour and Employment

Update Frequency

Yearly

Granularity

Yearly

Time Saved

5.5 hours

Number of rows

387

Number of Columns

Sources

Periodic Labour Force Survey: Annual Reports

Time Period

2004-05, 2009-10, 2011-12, 2017-18 to 2023-24

Units

unemployment_rate in percentage

Data Preview

fiscal_year	major_religious_group	region	gender	unemployment_rate	unit
2023-24	Hinduism	rural	male	2.6	unemployment_rate in percentage
2023-24	Islam	rural	male	2.6	unemployment_rate in percentage
2023-24	Christianity	rural	male	3.4	unemployment_rate in percentage
2023-24	Sikhism	rural	male	5.1	unemployment_rate in percentage
2023-24	All	rural	male	2.7	unemployment_rate in percentage
2023-24	Hinduism	rural	female	1.9	unemployment_rate in percentage
2023-24	Islam	rural	female	2.7	unemployment_rate in percentage
2023-24	Christianity	rural	female	4.5	unemployment_rate in percentage
2023-24	Sikhism	rural	female	7.2	unemployment_rate in percentage
2023-24	All	rural	female	2.1	unemployment_rate in percentage

Metadata

Name	Number of Distinct Values	Number of Unique Values	Type	Count
fiscal_year	10	0	Text	387
major_religious_group	5	0	Text	387
region	3	0	Text	387
gender	3	0	Text	387
unemployment_rate	99	22	Number	387
unit	1	0	Text	387
note	0	0	Unsupported	0

Citation

Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation. PLFS: Year, Region, Gender, and Religion wise Unemployment Rate [Data set]. Dataful. https://dataful.in/datasets/20478

PLFS: Year, Region, Gender, and Religion wise Unemployment Rate