“What Do the Latest Estimates Reveal?” | On the Adequacy of the Quarterly Periodic Labour Force Survey

Gurucharan Manna

This article examines the difference between the estimates of unemployment rate and worker population ratio in urban areas in the Periodic Labour Force Surveys for the quarters ending March and June 2021. It further investigates the sample size needed if the survey is to be equipped to detect the quarterly changes of specified magnitudes in the respective population parameter.