Like for poverty, the latest and seventh quinquennial NSS survey, that is, the sixty-first round conducted during July 2004 to June 2005, constitutes an important source of information on employment and unemployment. The sixty-first round of the NSSO survey reveals a faster increase in employment during 1999-2000 to 2004-05 as compared to 1993-94 to 1999-2000 (Table 10.4)