Conceptual Framework of Key Employment and Unemployment Indicators: Different approaches for determining activity status: On the basis of activities pursued by individuals during certain specified reference periods. There are three reference periods, namely (i) one year, (ii) one week and (iii) each day of the reference week. Based on these three periods, three different measures of activity status are arrived at. These are termed respectively as usual status, current weekly status and current daily status. Usual activity status: The activity status on which a person spent relatively longer time (major time criterion) during the 365 days preceding the date of survey is considered the usual principal activity status of the person. Subsidiary economic activity status: A person whose principal usual status is determined on the basis of the major time criterion may have pursued some economic activity for 30 days or more during the reference period of 365 days preceding the date of survey. The status in which such economic activity is pursued during the reference period of 365 days preceding the date of survey is the subsidiary economic activity status of the person. Current weekly activity status: The current weekly activity status of a person is the activity status obtaining for a person during a reference period of 7 days preceding the date of survey. It is decided on the basis of a certain priority cum major time criterion. A person is considered working (or employed)) if s/he, while pursuing any economic activity, had worked for at least one hour on at least one day during the 7 days preceding the date of survey. A person is considered ‘seeking or available for work (or unemployed)’ if during the reference week no economic activity was pursued by the person but s/he made efforts to get work or had been available for work any time during the reference week though not actively seeking work in the belief that no work was available. Current daily activity status: The current daily activity status for a person is determined on the basis of her/his activity status on each day of the reference week using a priority-cum-major time criterion (day to day labour time disposition). Labour force participation rate (LFPR): Labour force refers to the population which supplies or offers to supply labour for pursuing economic activities for the production of goods and services and, therefore, includes both ‘employed’ and ‘unemployed’ persons/person days. Labour-force participation rate (LFPR) is defined as the proportion of persons/person days in the labour-force to the total persons/person-days. Worker Population Ratio (WPR): The estimates of employed (or worker) according to the usual principal status gives the number of persons who worked for a relatively long part of the 365 days preceding the date of survey. The work force, considering both the usual principal status and the subsidiary status, includes the persons who (i) either worked for a relatively long part of the 365 days preceding the date of survey and (ii) also those persons from among the remaining population who had worked at least for 30 days during the reference period of 365 days preceding the date of survey. Unemployment rate (UR): Unemployment Rate (UR) is the ratio of number of unemployed persons/person-days to the number of persons/person-days in labour force (that is, number of employed and unemployed person/person-days). Estimates of UR are obtained by the three approaches used for classification of the activity statuses of the person. source : planning commission.
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