Quarterly Employment Survey
Source: PIB
GS II: Indian Economy

What is discussed under Quarterly Employment Survey?

1. What is Quarterly Employment Survey (QES)?
2. Key Highlights of the 4th Report

Why in News?

Quarterly Employment Survey (QES) Fourth Round Report (January-March 2022) is released by the Ministry of Labour and Employment (MOLE).

What is Quarterly Employment Survey?

• The Labour Bureau has adopted the All India Quarterly Establishment-based Employment Survey (AQEES) to give quarterly updates on the employment and related variables of establishments in both organised and unorganised parts of nine selected sectors, which constitute to the bulk of total non-farm business employment.
• QES captures employment data concerning establishments employing 10 or more workers, mostly constituting the organized segment, in the nine selected sectors.
• These sectors are:
  1. Manufacturing

     

  2. Construction
  3. Trade
  4. Transport
  5. Education
  6. Health
  7. Accommodation and Restaurants
  8. IT/ BPOs
  9. Financial Services
• The QES, which is part of the AQEES, was started in April 2021 to collect important data on employment and associated factors in the organised sector of the economy.
• Each quarter, data is collected from around 12,000 establishments.
• The first such report, covering the period April-June 2021, was published in September 2021.
• The AQEES is made up of two parts:
  • QES: Applies to businesses with 10 or more employees
  • Area Frame Establishment Survey (AFES): Applies to businesses with 9 or less employees

Key Highlights of the 4th Report

• An estimated total of 3.18 crore workers were employed in 5.31 lakh firms, compared to a total of 3.14 crores in the third quarter.
• The manufacturing industry employs the most people (38.5%), followed by the education sector (21.7%), the IT/BPO sector (12.2%), and the health sector (10.6%).
• In terms of establishment size (number of employees), an estimated 80% of the firms employed 10 to 99 people.
• If we limit ourselves to firms with 10 or more employees, this ratio rises to 88%.
• Approximately 12% of the businesses had less than ten employees.
• Only 1.4% of the businesses reported having at least 500 employees.
• Such major enterprises were largely in the IT/BPO and health care sectors.

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