Labour Force Life Tables for India, 1961 and 1971

The labour force or the economic active population (consists of the employed and the unemployed persons seeking work for first time or employed before but out of job, also includes unpaid family workers) is the backbone of a country's economic structure. The distribution of this population among different age groups is an important phenomenon. It is of great interest for planners and policy makers to observe persons entering into labour force, how long they would remain in that status, at what age they would retire from, how many would leave this status due to death at each age and the amount of losses in labour force due to retirement?