{
 "meta": {
  "dossier": "plfs",
  "frequency": "annual",
  "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, 15 years and above, rural + urban; share of workers by broad status in employment (usual status, PS+SS) and by broad industry (CWS); annual PLFS reports, agriculture years (Jul–Jun) plotted at July",
  "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": "2023-07",
  "note": "Composition identities hold as published: self-employed + regular + casual = 100 per gender; own-account + helpers = self-employed; primary + secondary + tertiary = 100. The API serves a single population for this indicator (its age filter returns no rows); values match the published 15+ statements."
 },
 "dates": [
  "2017-07-01",
  "2018-07-01",
  "2019-07-01",
  "2020-07-01",
  "2021-07-01",
  "2022-07-01",
  "2023-07-01"
 ],
 "series": {
  "self_employed_person": {
   "name": "plfs_workers_share_self_employed_person_pct",
   "label": "Self-employed",
   "color": "#2E4BD8",
   "data": [
    52.2,
    52.1,
    53.5,
    55.6,
    55.8,
    57.3,
    58.4
   ]
  },
  "regular_person": {
   "name": "plfs_workers_share_regular_person_pct",
   "label": "Regular wage/salary",
   "color": "#5F6675",
   "data": [
    22.8,
    23.8,
    22.9,
    21.1,
    21.5,
    20.9,
    21.7
   ]
  },
  "casual_person": {
   "name": "plfs_workers_share_casual_person_pct",
   "label": "Casual labour",
   "color": "#A3A9B4",
   "data": [
    24.9,
    24.1,
    23.6,
    23.3,
    22.7,
    21.8,
    19.8
   ]
  },
  "se_own_account_person": {
   "name": "plfs_workers_share_se_own_account_person_pct",
   "label": "Own-account & employers",
   "color": "#878D99",
   "data": [
    38.6,
    38.8,
    37.6,
    38.2,
    38.3,
    39,
    39
   ]
  },
  "se_helper_person": {
   "name": "plfs_workers_share_se_helper_person_pct",
   "label": "Household-enterprise helpers",
   "color": "#C9CED6",
   "data": [
    13.6,
    13.3,
    15.9,
    17.3,
    17.5,
    18.3,
    19.4
   ]
  },
  "self_employed_male": {
   "name": "plfs_workers_share_self_employed_male_pct",
   "label": "self employed · male",
   "color": "#5F6675",
   "data": [
    52.3,
    51.7,
    52.4,
    53.9,
    53.2,
    53.6,
    53.6
   ]
  },
  "regular_male": {
   "name": "plfs_workers_share_regular_male_pct",
   "label": "regular · male",
   "color": "#5F6675",
   "data": [
    23.4,
    24.4,
    24,
    22.7,
    23.6,
    23.2,
    24.9
   ]
  },
  "casual_male": {
   "name": "plfs_workers_share_casual_male_pct",
   "label": "casual · male",
   "color": "#5F6675",
   "data": [
    24.3,
    24,
    23.6,
    23.3,
    23.2,
    23.2,
    21.5
   ]
  },
  "self_employed_female": {
   "name": "plfs_workers_share_self_employed_female_pct",
   "label": "self employed · female",
   "color": "#A3A9B4",
   "data": [
    51.9,
    53.4,
    56.3,
    59.4,
    62.1,
    65.3,
    67.4
   ]
  },
  "regular_female": {
   "name": "plfs_workers_share_regular_female_pct",
   "label": "regular · female",
   "color": "#A3A9B4",
   "data": [
    21,
    21.9,
    20,
    17.4,
    16.5,
    15.9,
    15.9
   ]
  },
  "casual_female": {
   "name": "plfs_workers_share_casual_female_pct",
   "label": "casual · female",
   "color": "#A3A9B4",
   "data": [
    27,
    24.7,
    23.7,
    23.2,
    21.4,
    18.8,
    16.7
   ]
  },
  "industry_primary_person": {
   "name": "plfs_workers_share_industry_primary_pct",
   "label": "Agriculture & allied · CWS",
   "color": "#2E4BD8",
   "data": [
    42.4,
    40.2,
    43.7,
    44.3,
    42.9,
    43,
    43.5
   ]
  },
  "industry_secondary_person": {
   "name": "plfs_workers_share_industry_secondary_pct",
   "label": "Industry & construction · CWS",
   "color": "#5F6675",
   "data": [
    24.9,
    25.7,
    23.5,
    24.4,
    25.3,
    26.2,
    24.9
   ]
  },
  "industry_tertiary_person": {
   "name": "plfs_workers_share_industry_tertiary_pct",
   "label": "Services · CWS",
   "color": "#A3A9B4",
   "data": [
    32.6,
    34.2,
    32.8,
    31.3,
    31.8,
    30.8,
    31.6
   ]
  }
 }
}