[
  {
    "term": "SFI",
    "expand": "Subjective Flourishing Index",
    "def": "The Global Flourishing Study's composite of what people report about their own lives — happiness, health, meaning, character, relationships and material stability. India ranks 20th of 22.",
    "trap": ""
  },
  {
    "term": "OFI",
    "expand": "Objective Flourishing Index",
    "def": "The companion index built from 34 observable country-level indicators rather than self-report. India ranks 18th of 22.",
    "trap": ""
  },
  {
    "term": "NEET",
    "expand": "Not in Employment, Education or Training",
    "def": "The share of a given age group who are neither working nor studying nor in training. India's figure is 24.9% for ages 15–59 and 21.0% for ages 15–24.",
    "trap": "The two age bands are frequently swapped. A “25% of youth” claim is actually the 15–59 figure."
  },
  {
    "term": "LFPR",
    "expand": "Labour Force Participation Rate",
    "def": "The share of the population aged 15+ that is either working or actively looking for work. India: 59.3% in 2025.",
    "trap": ""
  },
  {
    "term": "WPR",
    "expand": "Worker Population Ratio",
    "def": "The share of the population aged 15+ that is actually working. India: 57.4% in 2025.",
    "trap": ""
  },
  {
    "term": "UR",
    "expand": "Unemployment Rate",
    "def": "The share of the labour force — not the population — that is looking for work and cannot find it. This is why a low UR can coexist with very low participation.",
    "trap": "A falling UR can mean people stopped looking rather than started working. Read it alongside LFPR."
  },
  {
    "term": "PLFS",
    "expand": "Periodic Labour Force Survey",
    "def": "India's official labour-force survey, run by the National Statistics Office. The 2025 edition moved to a calendar-year cycle with a new sampling design.",
    "trap": "The 2025 revamp breaks strict comparability with the earlier July–June reports."
  },
  {
    "term": "Formal vocational training",
    "expand": "",
    "def": "Training through a recognised institution leading to a certificate. Reaches 4.2% of Indians aged 15–59.",
    "trap": "Distinct from “any vocational training” (~21%), which includes informal, hereditary and on-the-job learning."
  },
  {
    "term": "Employability",
    "expand": "",
    "def": "In the India Skills Report, the share of assessed candidates scoring above a threshold on a standardised job-readiness test. 56.35% in 2026.",
    "trap": "Employability is an assessment outcome, not an employment outcome. It says nothing about whether jobs exist."
  },
  {
    "term": "Echo chamber",
    "expand": "",
    "def": "A network structure in which a person's information environment is dominated by voices that reinforce an existing position, and contrary information is filtered out or arrives pre-discredited.",
    "trap": ""
  },
  {
    "term": "Voluntary immobility",
    "expand": "",
    "def": "Choosing to stay in one's current location when migration is available — a positive preference, not an absence of opportunity. Ranges from 32% to 60% of youth across the three countries studied.",
    "trap": ""
  },
  {
    "term": "Demographic dividend",
    "expand": "",
    "def": "The growth opportunity created when the working-age share of a population is large relative to dependants. India's window runs to roughly 2036 on official projections.",
    "trap": "A dividend is a possibility, not a payment. It requires the jobs and institutions to convert it."
  },
  {
    "term": "Cross-sectional study",
    "expand": "",
    "def": "A study measuring a population at a single point in time. It can establish that two things occur together; it cannot establish that one caused the other.",
    "trap": "Most of the screen-time and mental-health evidence on this site is cross-sectional. Read it as correlation."
  }
]