{
 "meta": {
  "dossier": "plfs",
  "frequency": "quarterly",
  "base": "PLFS original design (2017-18 to 2024)",
  "source": "MoSPI, National Statistical Office",
  "vintage": "2026-10-09",
  "mock": false,
  "geo": "IND",
  "latestPeriod": "2024-10",
  "releaseDate": null,
  "coverage": "All India, 15 years and above, person, urban, CWS",
  "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)."
 },
 "dates": [
  "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",
  "2024-07-01",
  "2024-10-01"
 ],
 "series": {
  "ur": {
   "name": "unemployment_rate_urban_pct",
   "label": "Unemployment",
   "color": "#2E4BD8",
   "data": [
    9.7,
    9.6,
    9.7,
    9.2,
    null,
    8.1,
    7.8,
    9.1,
    20.8,
    13.2,
    10.3,
    9.3,
    12.6,
    9.8,
    8.7,
    8.2,
    7.6,
    7.2,
    7.2,
    6.8,
    6.6,
    6.6,
    6.5,
    6.7,
    6.6,
    6.4,
    6.4
   ],
   "gaps": [
    "2019-04-01"
   ],
   "gapsNote": "Quarters never published in this bulletin (Jan–Mar 2025: PLFS design transition), plus one quarantined source cell (Apr–Jun 2019 — a mislabeled duplicate of the COVID quarter; the published figure is 8.9)."
  },
  "lfpr": {
   "name": "lfpr_urban_pct",
   "label": "Participation",
   "color": "#5F6675",
   "data": [
    46.2,
    46.7,
    46.8,
    46.5,
    46.5,
    47.3,
    47.8,
    48.1,
    45.9,
    47.2,
    47.3,
    47.5,
    46.8,
    46.9,
    47.3,
    47.3,
    47.5,
    47.9,
    48.2,
    48.5,
    48.8,
    49.3,
    49.9,
    50.2,
    50.1,
    50.4,
    50.4
   ]
  },
  "wpr": {
   "name": "wpr_urban_pct",
   "label": "Workers",
   "color": "#A3A9B4",
   "data": [
    41.8,
    42.2,
    42.2,
    42.2,
    42.4,
    43.4,
    44.1,
    43.7,
    36.4,
    40.9,
    42.4,
    43.1,
    40.9,
    42,
    43.2,
    43.4,
    43.9,
    44.5,
    44.7,
    45.2,
    45.5,
    46,
    46.6,
    46.9,
    46.8,
    47.2,
    47.2
   ]
  }
 }
}