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Article History

Received: 3 July 2025

Accepted: 20 March 2026

First Online: 26 March 2026

Declarations

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: The study is solely based on secondary data source of Periodic Labour Force Survey made available in public domain with some data usage guidelines. The study strictly adhered to the policy of data usage as mentioned in the ‘Data Access Agreement’ of Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India.

: No informed consent was required for this study, as it did not involve any human subjects.

: There are no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship and/or publication of this article.