New Delhi, Nov. 11 -- India's headline unemployment rate was 5.1% in the quarter ended September, compared with 5.2% in the same quarter a year ago, according to the quarterly bulletin of the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) released by the National Statistics Office (NSO) on Tuesday. To be sure, the unemployment rate increased among the youth, a trend anticipated from the monthly data for the quarter. The headline unemployment rate decreased despite more people seeking work in the quarter ended September 2026 than in the quarter ended September 2025. The labour force participation rate (LFPR) - or the share of people working or looking for a job - was 42.3% in the quarter, up 70 basis points (one basis point is one hundredth of a percen...