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 "meta": {
  "dossier": "plfs",
  "frequency": "quarterly",
  "base": "PLFS original design (2017-18 to 2024)",
  "source": "MoSPI, National Statistical Office",
  "vintage": "2026-08-07",
  "mock": false,
  "geo": "IND",
  "releaseDate": null,
  "coverage": "All India, rural + urban; average earnings by worker status from the annual PLFS reports (agriculture years, quarterly grain): regular wage ₹/month, casual labour ₹/day (non-public works), self-employment gross ₹/30 days — three different denominators, never one axis",
  "revisionPolicy": "Final on release. Two survey designs, never joined: the original design (agriculture years 2017-18 to 2023-24, calendar years 2022 to 2024, the urban quarterly bulletin to Oct-Dec 2024) and the revamped design from January 2025 (monthly bulletin from Apr 2025, quarterly bulletin with rural areas and states from Apr-Jun 2025, calendar year 2025 on).",
  "latestPeriod": "2024-04",
  "note": "2017-18 rural+urban cells for regular-wage and self-employment earnings are quarantined: their implied urban worker weight (0.85 / 0.55) contradicts the stable structure of every later year (0.53-0.62 / 0.19-0.25). Rural and urban sector cells for that year match the published report and stay in the raw archive. Casual earnings carry the full span."
 },
 "dates": [
  "2017-07-01",
  "2017-10-01",
  "2018-01-01",
  "2018-04-01",
  "2018-07-01",
  "2018-10-01",
  "2019-01-01",
  "2019-04-01",
  "2019-07-01",
  "2019-10-01",
  "2020-01-01",
  "2020-04-01",
  "2020-07-01",
  "2020-10-01",
  "2021-01-01",
  "2021-04-01",
  "2021-07-01",
  "2021-10-01",
  "2022-01-01",
  "2022-04-01",
  "2022-07-01",
  "2022-10-01",
  "2023-01-01",
  "2023-04-01",
  "2023-07-01",
  "2023-10-01",
  "2024-01-01",
  "2024-04-01"
 ],
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   "name": "plfs_earnings_regular_person_inr",
   "label": "Regular wage · person (₹/month)",
   "color": "#2E4BD8",
   "data": [
    null,
    null,
    null,
    null,
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    15917.6,
    15827.2,
    16196.2,
    16418.2,
    16135.8,
    16759.1,
    17600.2,
    17234.1,
    17949.7,
    17594.2,
    17509.4,
    18468.1,
    18138.7,
    18372.1,
    18585,
    18800.5,
    19603,
    19523.1,
    20039.2,
    20095,
    20574.7,
    21036.2,
    21103.2
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  },
  "regular_male": {
   "name": "plfs_earnings_regular_male_inr",
   "label": "Regular wage · male (₹/month)",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    null,
    null,
    null,
    null,
    16556.9,
    16874.3,
    16842.2,
    17161,
    17146.4,
    17231.2,
    17764.5,
    18514.9,
    18328.1,
    19103.4,
    19004,
    18652.6,
    19361.3,
    19280.9,
    19489.3,
    19721.7,
    20097.8,
    20784.4,
    20756,
    21025.7,
    21477.9,
    21962.6,
    22553.5,
    22375
   ]
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  "regular_female": {
   "name": "plfs_earnings_regular_female_inr",
   "label": "Regular wage · female (₹/month)",
   "color": "#A3A9B4",
   "data": [
    null,
    null,
    null,
    null,
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    12629.2,
    12285.3,
    12850.5,
    14095,
    12769.2,
    13532.9,
    14688.2,
    13736.9,
    14013.7,
    13247.8,
    13926.9,
    15362.3,
    14217.4,
    14508,
    14678.5,
    14722.8,
    15741.2,
    15498.7,
    16925.9,
    15790.4,
    16620.7,
    16546.1,
    17034
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  "casual_person": {
   "name": "plfs_earnings_casual_person_inr",
   "label": "Casual · person (₹/day)",
   "color": "#5F6675",
   "data": [
    243.1,
    251,
    258.4,
    270.8,
    264.4,
    275.6,
    278.6,
    290.7,
    281.9,
    287.4,
    300.8,
    292.5,
    313.9,
    311.2,
    322.2,
    326.7,
    364.4,
    373,
    376.5,
    382.9,
    414.6,
    394.4,
    398.3,
    403.2,
    403.5,
    415.6,
    419.3,
    433
   ]
  },
  "casual_male": {
   "name": "plfs_earnings_casual_male_inr",
   "label": "Casual · male (₹/day)",
   "color": "#A3A9B4",
   "data": [
    264.5,
    273.9,
    280.1,
    291,
    287.9,
    297.9,
    299.1,
    309.8,
    310.9,
    319,
    328.4,
    317.3,
    340.5,
    341.2,
    351.6,
    356.8,
    391.8,
    400.7,
    405.5,
    408,
    442.7,
    428.5,
    428.7,
    432,
    439.3,
    450.7,
    451.3,
    459.4
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  },
  "casual_female": {
   "name": "plfs_earnings_casual_female_inr",
   "label": "Casual · female (₹/day)",
   "color": "#C9CED6",
   "data": [
    169.1,
    173.4,
    176.9,
    181.7,
    174.5,
    190.3,
    193.4,
    204.5,
    190.4,
    197.2,
    211,
    211.9,
    217.6,
    220.5,
    228.9,
    232.7,
    265.7,
    267.1,
    264.2,
    271.7,
    264.7,
    276.2,
    285.9,
    290.7,
    293.1,
    292.9,
    293.4,
    306.4
   ]
  },
  "self_employed_person": {
   "name": "plfs_earnings_self_employed_person_inr",
   "label": "Self-employed · person (₹/30 days)",
   "color": "#A3A9B4",
   "data": [
    null,
    null,
    null,
    null,
    9945,
    10261.6,
    10438.5,
    10648.3,
    10538.2,
    10725.5,
    11010.9,
    9540.7,
    10291.4,
    10839.7,
    10756.8,
    10363.3,
    11104.6,
    11553.6,
    11867,
    12186.3,
    13819.4,
    12383.8,
    12972.2,
    13347.4,
    12685.3,
    13043.8,
    13486.8,
    13899.6
   ]
  },
  "self_employed_male": {
   "name": "plfs_earnings_self_employed_male_inr",
   "label": "Self-employed · male (₹/30 days)",
   "color": "#C9CED6",
   "data": [
    null,
    null,
    null,
    null,
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    11007.2,
    11292.2,
    11674.1,
    11508.5,
    11701.1,
    12004.8,
    10261.8,
    11183.6,
    11924.2,
    11975.7,
    11345.4,
    12220.8,
    12798.5,
    13385.4,
    13843.2,
    15503.4,
    14309.9,
    15211.1,
    15763.4,
    15317.3,
    15653.6,
    16333.7,
    16722.9
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  },
  "self_employed_female": {
   "name": "plfs_earnings_self_employed_female_inr",
   "label": "Self-employed · female (₹/30 days)",
   "color": "#5F6675",
   "data": [
    null,
    null,
    null,
    null,
    4460.5,
    5004.9,
    4996.1,
    4919.5,
    5202.5,
    5536,
    5485.7,
    5114.5,
    5162,
    5075.3,
    4967.1,
    5170,
    5407.3,
    5366.9,
    5328.7,
    5311.4,
    5589.4,
    5302.4,
    5534,
    5636.7,
    5297.2,
    5384.1,
    5502.8,
    5802.8
   ]
  }
 }
}