India, March 12 -- The Government of India has issued a release:

PLFS Survey period

Unemployment Rate (in percent)

2019-20

3.4

2020-21

2.7

2021-22

2.4

2022-23

1.8

2023-24

1.9

Union Minister of State for Tribal Affairs Shri Durgadas Uikey informed Lok Sabha that as per the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) conducted by Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, the estimate of unemployment rate among Schedule Tribes (STs), at the all-India level including Kerala, for the survey period 2019-20 to 2023-24 is given below:

For each household surveyed, the social group to which the head of the household belonged to was recorded. The social group of the head of the household was considered as the social group of all the m...