Dataset · Employment
Number of persons registered as work seekers on the live register of employment exchanges in each district of Kerala, split into general and professional/technical work seekers, men and women, as printed in the appendix 'District-wise Distribution of Work Seekers' of the Kerala Economic Review, editions 2016, 2017 and 2019 to 2025. The figures come from the Directorate of Employment and refer to the date in each caption (30 September 2016, then 31 July or 31 August of the edition year). Each row is one district (or the Kerala total), edition and measure; the table, page and file of each edition are listed under Source documents; from the 2022 edition a grand total column is printed as well. The live register held 2,297,651 work seekers on 31 August 2025 (1,468,012 women). Registration is voluntary and includes people already employed, so it is not an unemployment rate; use it to compare registered job seeking across districts and over time.
The first 5 of 870 rows
| period | period_type | geo_level | geo_code | geo_name | indicator | measure | region | ref_period | ref_period_type | is_partial_period | value | unit | qa_flag | notes | district_as_per_source |
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| 2016 | year | state | 32 | Kerala | work_seekers_live_register | general_men | State | 2016-09-30 | as_on_date | False | 1194518.0 | persons | Total | ||
| 2016 | year | state | 32 | Kerala | work_seekers_live_register | general_women | State | 2016-09-30 | as_on_date | False | 2072540.0 | persons | Total | ||
| 2016 | year | state | 32 | Kerala | work_seekers_live_register | professional_men | State | 2016-09-30 | as_on_date | False | 136682.0 | persons | Total | ||
| 2016 | year | state | 32 | Kerala | work_seekers_live_register | professional_women | State | 2016-09-30 | as_on_date | False | 119492.0 | persons | Total | ||
| 2016 | year | state | 32 | Kerala | work_seekers_live_register | total_men | State | 2016-09-30 | as_on_date | False | 1331200.0 | persons | Total |
16 columns, in file order.
periodperiod_typegeo_levelgeo_codegeo_nameindicatormeasureregionref_periodref_period_typeis_partial_periodvalueunitqa_flagnotesdistrict_as_per_sourcePlease cite this dataset when you use it:
Policy and Research Initiative (2026). District-wise work seekers on the employment exchange live register in Kerala, 2016-2025 [Dataset]. PRI Data Repository. /data/work-seekers-live-register-kerala