New Delhi, Feb. 18 -- India's urban unemployment rate for individuals aged 15 and above declined to 6.4% in the October-December quarter, down from 6.5% in the year-ago period, according to data released by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) on Tuesday.

The urban unemployment rate stood at 5.8% for men and 8.1% for women in the October-December 2024 quarter, according to the PLFS report released by the ministry of statistics and programme implementation (MoSPI), compared to 5.8% and 8.6%, respectively, during the year-ago period.

The unemployment rate measures the share of jobless individuals within the labour force.

According to the NSSO, 5,742 urban sampling units were surveyed across urban India in the October-December 2024 qu...