THE Labour Force Survey 2024-25, released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, has some serious flaws. For starters, there are concerns that the unemployment figures it contains do not accurately reflect the true state of joblessness in the country when compared to data from the Population and Housing Census, 2023. This might be put down to sampling errors and other limitations. But the discrepancy is too large for some expert economists to ignore: while the labour market report estimates unemployment at 7.1pc, the census puts this figure at 22.5pc. The government should have explained what is causing this discrepancy, and also why the survey counts people raising poultry at home as ‘employed’. Is it to keep........

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