The District Atlas
770 districts of today's map, from 2017-18 to 2025: each round reads between 631 and 764 of them, as the lists grew with new districts. The labour survey is drawn to speak for States; a district holds only a handful of its villages and town blocks, so every district here carries its own margin of error, and the atlas marks plainly those the survey cannot read.
MoSPI, Periodic Labour Force Survey, 2017-18 to 2025, unit-level records by district Computed from the unit-level records
- Source
- MoSPI, Periodic Labour Force Survey, 2017-18 to 2025, unit-level records by district: the primary unit-level records, weighted as MoSPI weights them
- Computed
- Methodological notes
- MoSPI prints no district tables for these rounds: every rate here is computed from the unit-level records, with its design-based standard error.
- A district is drawn solid where its standard error is at most a quarter of its rate, under hatching where it is at most a half, and as hatching alone otherwise, where its sample is suppressed, or where (2025) it is not its own stratum of the design.
How sureEvery district, and its margin
Each district's rate against its standard error. The dashed rays are the atlas's rules: below the first, the error is at most a quarter of the rate and the district is drawn solid; between them, it is indicative; above the second, the survey cannot read it. A district that seems to leap from one round to the next is news only if it sits low on this plate.
Every districtFind, sort, compare
The same measure and round as the map, for every district of the State chosen above, or all of India. Sort by the rate or the name; districts the survey cannot read sit at the foot, without a number.
Reading a districtWhat the survey can say
Participation is common enough to be counted well: in 2024 the survey read 574 of 736 districts reliably on who works or seeks work. Unemployment is rarer, and rests on few people in each district: it read 48 of them reliably. A district's colour is its rate; hatching over the colour says the margin is wide, and hatching alone says the survey cannot tell.
In 2025 the survey was redrawn, with each district its own stratum where it could be. It is a new instrument: the plate's line stops before it, and its rates do not continue the old series. A district whose boundaries have changed carries a note on how far its territory is the same.
StatesFurther out
The State atlas reads every State and Union Territory, which the survey is built to speak for, each checked against the tables MoSPI printed.