Urban unemployment rate at 9.7% in Q3CY18, reveals NSSO report

60% of the urban population was employed in the services sector during 2018

The unemployment rate stood at 9.7 per cent in urban areas of the country during October-December 2018 — a notch higher than the rate of joblessness in the July-September period, according to the National Sample Survey Office’s (NSSO) quarterly bulletin on employment and unemployment indicators.

The unemployment rate stood at 9.6 per cent in July-September 2018, and 9.7 per cent in April-June 2018 (for age group of 15 and above). It was higher for females, at 12.1 per cent, than males (9 per cent) in October-December. This is the first estimate on the labour market in urban areas generated by the