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The complaint of unemployment successful the state among persons aged 15 years and supra roseate somewhat to 5% successful January this twelvemonth from 4.8% successful December 2025, according to a authorities survey released connected Monday (February 16, 2026).
The UR (unemployment rate) oregon joblessness recorded a marginal summation successful January successful some agrarian and municipality areas, showed the latest Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS). The information besides showed a little labour unit information complaint (LFPR) arsenic good arsenic workers colonisation ratio (WPR) crossed the agrarian and municipality areas.
The National Statistics Office (NSO) nether the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, said successful a connection that the diminution successful LFPR and WPR, and emergence successful UR successful January was chiefly rural-driven, with seasonal factors, post-harvest slack, and discouragement effects playing a cardinal role.
"Many activities similar construction, agriculture allied work, transport, tiny trade, etc. slowdown successful winter. Urban areas remained stable," it explained.
The gait of joblessness among those aged 15 years and supra roseate to 5% successful January 2026 from 4.8% successful December past year.
The agrarian UR edged up from 3.9% to 4.2%, portion the municipality UR accrued from 6.7% to 7.0% during December 2025 to January 2026.
Among males aged 15 years and above, the UR continued to stay unchangeable successful January 2026.
In contrast, unemployment among females successful the aforesaid property radical was higher successful January 2026 than successful December 2025.
It stated that the pistillate UR remained wrong the scope observed during the play April to December 2025, indicating a short-term summation alternatively than a important weakening of pistillate labour marketplace conditions.
Overall LFPR among persons aged 15 years and supra was reported astatine 55.9% successful January, little than 56.1% successful December 2025.
Rural LFPR besides declined to 58.7% past period compared to 59.0% successful December 2025.
Urban LFPR stood astatine 50.3% successful January 2026 arsenic against 50.2% successful December 2025.
The information of pistillate labourers successful January was 35.1%. While pistillate LFPR successful agrarian areas was astatine 39.7%, their information successful municipality areas stood astatine 25.5% during past month.
Female LFPR maintained its level, with marginal variations crossed agrarian and municipality areas, the connection said.
The wide Worker Population Ratio (WPR) among those aged 15 years and supra exhibited a wide stableness successful January 2026.
Following a gradual summation successful agrarian WPR from June 2025 (53.3%) to December 2025 (56.7%), it declined marginally to 56.2% successful January 2026.
In agrarian areas, antheral and pistillate WPR stood astatine 75.7% and 38.0%, respectively, successful January compared to the respective figures of 76.0% and 38.6% successful the preceding month.
Urban WPR remained unchangeable crossed genders with 70.5% for males, 23.0% for females and 46.8% astatine wide level successful January.
At the all-India level, the monthly estimates are based connected accusation collected from a 3,73,158 persons surveyed.
The PLFS conducted by NSO is the superior root of information connected enactment information and employment and unemployment conditions of the population.
The survey methodology has been modified since January 2025 to supply monthly and quarterly estimates of labour unit indicators for the country.
The monthly bulletins for April 2025 to December 2025 person already been released. The latest bulletin for January 2026 is the tenth successful the series.
