Employment across 9 sectors sees 29% rise in June qtr: govt
Employment in these sectors was at 3.08 cr, compared to 2.37 cr in the Economic Census of 2013-14
NEW DELHI: Employment in nine selected sectors, including construction, manufacturing and IT/ BPO, was at 3.08 crore in the April-June quarter of 2021-22, reflecting a growth of 29% compared to 2.37 crore reported in the Economic Census of 2013-14, according to a survey. Labour and employment minister Bhupender Yadav on Monday released the report of Quarterly Employment Survey (QES) part (April to June 2021), of the AllIndia Quarterly Establishmentbased Employment Survey (AQEES) prepared by the Labour Bureau.
Announcing the results, Yadav said the estimated total employment in the nine selected sectors from the first round of QES is 3 crores and 8 lakhs approximately against a total of 2 crores and 37 lakhs in these sectors taken collectively, as reported in the sixth Economic Census (EC 2013-14) reflecting a growth rate of 29%.
The AQEES has been taken up by the Labour Bureau to provide frequent (quarterly) updates about the employment and related variables of establishments, in both organised and unorganised segments of nine selected sectors. These sectors altogether account for a majority of the total employment in the non-farm establishments. These nine selected sectors are Manufacturing, Construction, Trade, Transport, Education, Health, Accommodation and Restaurant, IT/ BPO and Financial Services.
“Of the total employment estimated in the selected nine sectors, Manufacturing accounts for nearly 41% followed by Education with 22%, and Health 8%. Trade as well as and IT/BPO each engaged 7% of the total estimated number of workers,” Yadav said.
The union minister mentioned that data on all aspects of labour is crucial.
“Evidence-based policy making and statistics based execution is the major focus of Prime Minister Narendra Modi,” the labour minister said. Such scientifically collected data with purity and integrity that can be cross examined will be immensely beneficial towards achieving targeted and last mile delivery of government programmes and schemes.
Sharing the findings on the pandemic induced employment retrenchment/ decline, he informed that it was found that the impact was evident in 27% of the establishments however the silver lining was that 81% of the workers received full wages during the lock-down period (March 25–June 30, 2020).
According to the survey the most impressive growth of 152% has been recorded in the IT/BPO sector, while growth rates in health is 77%, in education it is 39%, in manufacturing it is 22%, in transport it is 68% and in construction it is 42%.
However, it stated that employment in trade came down by 25% and in accommodation & restaurant the decline was by 13%. Financial services saw a 48% growth in employment.
Nearly 90% of the establishments have been estimated to work with less than 100 workers, the corresponding figure during EC 6 being 95%. Nearly 35% of the IT/ BPO establishments worked with at least 100 workers, including about 13.8% engaging 500 workers or more. In the health sector, 18% of the establishments had 100 or more workers.
The over-all participation of female workers stood at 29%, slightly lower than 31% reported during 6th EC.
Regular workers constitute 88% of the estimated workforce in the nine selected sectors, with only 2% being casual workers. However, 18% of workers in the construction sector are contractual employees and 13% are casual workers.
Only 9% of the establishments (with at least 10 workers) were not registered with any authority or under any act. While 26% of all the establishments were registered under the Companies Act with 71% registration in IT/ BPO, 58% registration in construction, 46% in manufacturing, 42% in transport, 35% in trade and 28% in financial services.
Around 18% of the establishments have provision of on-job skill training programmes.
There are two components under AQEES, Quarterly Employment Survey (QES) and Area Frame Establishment Survey (AFES).