Economics · Employment and Labor Market
Concerning the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO)'s Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) data and its relevance to measuring structural change, choose the correct option from the statements below: Statement I: The Usual Principal and Subsidiary Status (UPSS) method captures the employment status of a person over a long reference period (365 days) and is a reliable measure for tracking long-term shifts in sectoral employment structure. Statement II: Recent trends in the Indian economy show a significant rise in the percentage of the workforce engaged as Casual Labour, indicating a widespread increase in the formalization of employment. Statement III: The structural shift in India's employment is marked by a notable decline in the share of Self-Employed individuals in the Agriculture sector, with the resulting labour moving primarily into regular wage/salaried employment in the Secondary Sector.
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- 1Only Statement I and Statement III are correct.
- 2Only Statement II and Statement III are correct.
- 3Only Statement I and Statement II are correct.
- 4Only Statement I is correct.✓
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Only Statement I is correct.
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