According to the latest report on employment and unemployment of Delhi Government’s Directorate of Economics & Statistics based on a poll conducted during the 68th Round of National Sample Survey in 2011-12, about 57.60 lakh people (33.39 per cent of the total population) were employed and only 2.66 lakh people (1.56 per cent of the total) unemployed in the national Capital.
This means that Delhi is among the States where percentage of employment is higher. As per report, there is only 1.56 per cent are unemployed. Out of the total employed people of 57.06 lakh in Delhi, about 56.24 lakh people were employed in the urban area and 0.82 lakh in the rural area. The number of males was 51.66 lakh and females 5.40 lakh.
A major source of earnings of about 22.19 lakh households (52.68 per cent of the total) was from regular wages/salary whereas source of earning of about 15-46 lakh households (36.70 per cent) were from self-employment.
The survey reveals that out of 2.66 lakh unemployed people, about 2.12 lakh were male and remaining 0.54 lakh were female. Out of 2.66 lakh unemployed people, about 2.50 lakh (93.84 per cent) were in the category of 15-29 years of age and remaining were in other age groups. It has also been observed that out of 2.66 lakh unemployed people, about 0.07 lakh (3 per cent of the total) were illiterate.
About 0.15 lakh were literate but below primary level, about 0.89 lakh were primary, middle and secondary pass and 1.56 lakh were higher secondary and above. The unemployment rate in the urban area of Delhi is 40 per 1,000 people in the labour force as compared to 34 per 1,000 in the urban area at the national level and 42 in Haryana, 41 in Uttar Pradesh, 40 in Himachal Pradesh, 70 in J&K, 64 in Chandigarh and 43 per 1,000 in the urban area of Andhra Pradesh.
The survey reveals that out of 111.16 lakh people out of the labour force, about 51.62 lakh (46 per cent) were attending educational institutions, 39.28 lakh (35 per cent) attending domestic duties, 4.36 lakh (4 per cent) were rentiers/pensioners and about 0.80 lakh (0.72 per cent) were not able to work due to disability.