All India Quarterly Establishment based Employment Survey

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Context

• Recently, the fourth round (January-March 2022) of the Quarterly Employment Survey (QES), which is a part of the All India Quarterly Establishment based Employment Survey (AQEES) was released by the Labour Bureau .

All India Quarterly Establishment based Employment Survey (AQEES)

• The AQEES has been taken up by the Labour Bureau to provide quarterly updates about the employment and related variables of establishments in both organized and unorganized segments of nine selected sectors, which account for a majority of the total employment in the non-farm establishments.
• The AQEES had two components such as the “Quarterly Employment Survey (QES)” and the “Area Frame Establishment Survey (AFES)” and simultaneously the Bureau was also studying about migrant and domestic workers too.
• QES captures employment data in respect of establishments employing 10 or more workers, mostly constituting the organized segment, in the nine selected sectors. These sectors are Manufacturing, Construction, Trade, Transport, Education, Health, Accommodation & Restaurants, IT/ BPOs and Financial Services.

Findings

• Manufacturing continues to be the largest institutional employer in the country, employing about 38.5% of the workers.
• Around 3.18 crore workers were employed in about 5.31 lakh establishments between January and March. It claimed an increase of about four lakh workers compared with the third round of QES.
• Education, manufacturing, trade and financial services together accounts for 84% of the total estimated units.
• Manufacturing sector accounts for the largest percentage (38.5%) of the total number of workers, followed by education sector with 21.7%, IT/BPO sector with 12% and Health sector 10.6%.
• The participation of women workers witnessed a marginal increase from 31.6% in the third quarter to 31.8% in the fourth quarter report. However, women workers constituted about 52% of the workforce in the health sector, while the corresponding percentages in education, financial services and IT/ BPO sectors stood at 44%, 41% and 36%, respectively. In financial services, women far outnumber males among self-employed persons.
• 4% of the workers were regular employees, and 8.7% were contractual employees followed by casual employees (2.3%) and self-employed (2%). The share of fixed term employees in the establishments was found to be the least (0.7%) over all.
• Employment was showing an increasing trend and estimated employment rose from 3.14 crore in the third quarter (September-December 2021) to 3.18 crore in the fourth quarter (January-March 2022).
• The total employment in these nine selected sectors taken collectively was reported as 2.37 crore in the sixth economic census (2013-14).

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