Union Minister of Labour & Employment, Shri Bhupender Yadav, today released the Report on Second Quarter of Quarterly Employment Survey (QES), part of All India Quarterly Establishment based Employment Survey (AQEES) prepared by the Labour Bureau.
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 majority of the total employment in the non-farm establishments. These include manufacturing, construction, trade, transport, education, health, accommodation & restaurant, IT / BPO and financial services. QES has been initiated to compile relevant data from about 12,000 establishments selected through the sampling design to represent each of the nine sectors within each State / UT as also each size and class within each sector – State / UT combination.
Addressing the gathering in a hybrid mode of meeting, Shri Bhupender Yadav said that the employment has increased by 2 lakhs from the first round of QES (3.08 crore) to 3.10 crore. Of the total employment estimated, manufacturing accounted for 39 per cent, education – 22 per cent and health as well as IT / BPO – 10 per cent, he added.
Complementing the Expert Committee, Chairman, Shri S.P. Mukherjee, the Minister said that under the leadership of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, the Government is into evidence based policy making for last mile delivery. Referring to four labour surveys in the pipeline, he expressed hope that the survey on migrant labours may be ready by August, 2022 and assured that reliable data on labour and employment will be shared every quarterly. The Minister also said that we are passing through Omicron pandemic and every efforts will be made to overcome the problem by following covid protocols.
Referring to gender justice, the Minister said that almost 50 percent registered in e-shram website are women and the overall percentage of female workers stood at 32.1, higher than 29.3 reported during the first round of QES.
In his message, the Minister of State for Labour & Employment, Shri Rameswar Teli congratulated Labour Bureau team for this trimester survey and expressed hope that they will continue to do good work. In his address, Secretary, Ministry of Labour, Shri Sunil Bartwal said that these data needs to be released in a time bound manner and thanked Professor S.P. Mukherjee for research, collection and analysis of the data. He said that during July to September, 2021, economy was very delicate and efforts were made to put it on recovery path. Government focusses on employment in spite of omicron epidemic and e-shram + Q2 of QES will provide a big database to arrive at migrant workers numbers.
Shri I.S. Negi, DG, Labour Bureau, Shri Arun Kumar Biswas, DG, Statistics and Smt. Kalpana Rajsinghot, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Labour & Employment were also present in the meeting.
Some of the highlights of the survey are:
- The estimated total employment in the nine selected sectors from the second round of QES (July-September, 2021) came out as 3.10 crore approximately, which is 2 lakhs higher than the estimated employment (3.08 crore) from the first round of QES (April-June, 2021). It may be worthwhile to mention here that the total employment for these nine sectors taken collectively was reported as 2.37 crore in the sixth EC (2013-14).
- Of the total employment estimated in the selected nine sectors, Manufacturing accounted for nearly 39%, followed by Education with 22% and Health as well as IT/BPOs sectors both around 10%. Trade and Transport sectors engaged 5.3% and 4.6% of the total estimated workers respectively. It is pertinent to mention that percentage for the IT/BPO sector in Quarter 1 was only 7.
- Nearly 90% of the establishments have been estimated to work with less than 100 workers, though 30% of the IT/BPO establishments worked with at least 100 workers including about 12% engaging 500 workers or more. In the Health sector, 19% of the establishments had 100 or more workers. Also, in the case of transport sector, 14% of the total estimated establishments were operating with 100 or more workers. It may be mentioned that 91% of establishments were reported to have worked with less than 100 workers in the first round of QES and in the IT/BPO sector, the figures during the first QES stood at 21% and 14% respectively for the size classes of 100-499 employees and 500 or more employees.
- The over-all percentage of female workers stood at 32.1, higher than 29.3% reported during the first round of QES.
- Regular workers constitute 87% of the estimated workforce in the nine selected sectors, with only 2% being casual workers. However, in the Construction sector, 20% of the workers were contractual and 6.4% were casual workers.
- Most (98.3%) of the establishments were located outside households, though a highest 5.1 % of units in Accommodation and Restaurants sector were found to operate from within households.
- 23.5% of all the establishments were registered under the Companies Act, this percentage was as high as 82.8% in IT / BPO, 51.2% in Construction, 42.8% in Manufacturing, 36.4% in Transport, 32.1% in Trade and 23.8% in financial services. One-fourth of the establishments were operating as registered societies, 53.9% were registered under the Goods and Service Tax Act, 2017 and 27.8% under Shops & commercial Establishments Act, 1958.
- Looking at the educational qualifications of workers, it came out that 28.4% of those working in seven of the nine sectors (excluding Education and Health) were matriculates/secondary or less educated, while another 37.0% were graduates or had higher qualifications. In fact, the latter percentage was as high as 91.6% in the IT/BPO sector and 59.8% in Financial Services. In the Health sector, as few as 18% of the non-Clinical workers were matriculates/secondary or less educated, the figure being 26.4% in the non-Teaching staff of the Education sector. More than 40% of the employees in these two sectors were at least graduates.
- It is somewhat encouraging to note that 16.8% of the establishments provided formal skill development programmes, although mostly for their own employees. It transpired that an estimated 5.6% of the establishments were having vacancies in positions and the estimated number of total vacancies was 4.3 lakhs. About 65.8% of such vacancies were not due to retirement or resignation of the employees.
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