All India Quarterly Establishment-based Employment Survey

Subject – Economy

Context – Nine sectors employ 3.08 crore in Q1

Concept –

The report said that the overall employment numbers had increased by 29% from the base year of 2013-14.
However, in the first quarter of this fiscal (April-June 2021), 27% of the establishments surveyed reported pandemic-related retrenchment.
Nine organised sectors of the economy appear to have weathered the Covid second wave well, employing 3.08 crore in the April-June quarter, which is 29 per cent higher than the 2.37 crore people they had on their rolls in 2013-14 (according to the sixth Economic Census).
Union Labour Minister Bhupender Yadav released here the first Quarterly Employment Survey (QES) of 2021- 22 on employment and related variables in nine non-farm sectors of manufacturing, construction, trade, transport, education, health, accommodation & restaurant, IT/BPO and financial services.

Economic census in India

Indian economic census is the census of the Indian economy through counting all entrepreneurial units in the country which were involved in any economic activities of either agricultural or non-agricultural sector, which engaged in production and/or distribution of goods and/or services.
The Census also provides valuable insight into geographical spread and clusters of economic activities, ownership pattern, persons engaged in all economic establishments of the country.
In 1977, the Central Statistical Organisation (CSO) conducted the First economic census in collaboration with the Directorate of Economics & Statistics (DES) in the States/Union Territories.
It is conducted once in 5 years.
The Seventh Economic Census (7th EC) was conducted by Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) in 2019.
- The MoSPI has partnered with CSC e-Governance Services India Limited, a Special Purpose Vehicle under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology as the implementing agency for 7th EC.