The Periodic Labour Force Survey provides employment–unemployment statistics for both the rural and urban areas on an annual basis and also quarterly estimates of key employment–unemployment indicators for the urban areas. Sample households interviewed in the survey are randomly selected after due stratification of the households residing in the selected villages and urban blocks. As against the existing stratification variable, this article explores alternative variables which are likely to fare better for stratification and sampling of households in the PLFS. It also examines the sample allocation of number of households per village and urban block to different strata of households for possible refinements.
