NEW DELHI: Results of India’s first computer based employment-unemployment survey detailing the country’s wage structure at the national and regional level for 8,000 villages and 5,000 units across urban centres, will be released by the end of this year.Statistics ministry, which began collecting data for the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) last year, plans to publish the national composite employment numbers for the July 2017-June 2018 period.“Field work has been on for a year. Data collection is going on and the first report will be out by the end of this year,” said an official in the know.At present, the only employment data available is through National Sample Survey Office ( NSSO ) surveys which are done once every five years.The statistics ministry plans to share labour force data from urban centres on a quarterly basis while numbers on rural India's workforce would come out every year.“This survey report will follow the July-June calendar of the previous quinquennial surveys,” the official added.PLFS was launched in April last year to obtain employment data at shorter intervals by measuring quarterly changes in statistical indicators of labour market in urban areas and generate annual estimates of labour force for the economy as a whole. It replaces the NSSO’s Employment Unemployment surveys.The survey is aimed at providing annual estimates of labour force, employment, unemployment, industry structure of workforce, nature of employment and wages nationally and regionally on an annual basis. Households in urban areas will be visited about four times, constituting a rolling panel for three quarters. This will facilitate the tracking of seasonal employment and changes in employment characteristics over time.Moreover, there would be higher accuracy and faster processing of data because the survey is done using the Computer Assisted Personal Interview (CAPI) technique, which involves direct entry of data in tablets at the field level.