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Data Leak Of Unemployment Figures Serious, Making Efforts To Ascertain Who Disclosed It, Says Govt

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The government Thursday admitted in the Rajya Sabha that there has been a data leak of unemployment figures and said efforts were being made to ascertain who was behind it.

He also informed members that the government has changed the methodology for  ascertaining unemployment rates as a periodic survey is now being held every year based on

quarterly data, against the five-year surveys earlier.

"It is right that there was a data leak. Our survey result was to come out on May 30, 2019, but before that the data was leaked. We have taken this very seriously. Maybe someone has an agenda behind it and the data was leaked. We are making efforts to ascertain who was behind the leak," the minister told members.