Joblessness among educated, skilled rose sharply, shows NSSO survey

The NSSO survey defines a person to be educated if he/she has completed school studies till at least the secondary level (class 9th-10th)

After recording a fall in 2011-12, the unemployment rate among educated people in the country rose sharply in 2017-18, according to the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO)'s first periodic labour force survey. 

The unemployment rate for skilled persons almost doubled between 2011-12 and 2017-18, even as the proportion of the people who got vocational or formal training during this period was less. 

The survey showed that the literacy rate went up in 2017-18. More rural people got educated and young female workers spent more years towards attaining formal education than their male counterparts. 

The unemployment rate was much higher for