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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Data Set for Modi's '7 Million Jobs' Claim Badly Maintained, '30-40% Unclean' -Somesh Jha

Data Set for Modi's '7 Million Jobs' Claim Badly Maintained, '30-40% Unclean' -Somesh Jha

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published Published on Feb 20, 2018   modified Modified on Feb 20, 2018
-TheWire.in/ Business Standard

The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation data analysed by researchers showed that in some cases, members have received contributions even before their joining date.

New Delhi:
A presentation made by State Bank of India chief economist Soumya Kanti Ghosh and Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore professor Pulak Ghosh to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) in January captured how subscriber data is shoddily maintained by the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) – something that the recently released study on creation of seven million jobs in 2017-18 did not include.

Out of around 80 million accounts that the two researchers analysed, there were ten million records with only names and no other details about the subscribers, including their date of joining, date of birth and father’s name, among others, in the EPFO’s records. Several records maintained by the EPFO had names such as A, a, xxx, 9, z, with provident fund contribution against them.

Soumya Kanti and Pulak briefed these facts to the PMO in a presentation made four days before making their report, ‘Towards a Payroll Reporting in India’, public on January 16. Top officials from the NITI Aayog, finance ministry, labour and employment ministry and the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation were present at the meeting.

The slides in the presentation, Navigating Through Numerous Challenges in EPFO Data, were not part of the study that was released last month. The presentation was reviewed by Business Standard.

Only 20% of the members had permanent account numbers (PANs) and there was “no consistency in capturing the members’ data with some or the other details of the subscribers missing, that made it really difficult to remove duplicates,” Soumya Kanti and Pulak told the PMO. “[It] looks like there is 30-40% of unclean data. Only few remain useful with all the fields populated,” according to the presentation.

The EPFO has also captured the date of birth inaccurately for several users, showing the members were either over 100-years-old or less than 18 years. “Since we cannot identify many members uniquely, we are not sure how many new payrolls are created, or how many are in a job for a while but are being counted as fresh,” Soumya Kanti and Pulak admitted, estimating that seven million jobs would be added to the payroll in 2017-18.

The EPFO data analysed by the researchers also showed that in some cases, members have received contribution even before their joining date, “probably due to late registration”, and some members received multiple provident fund contributions for months. “EPFO should do a thorough job of cleaning the entire databases and their systems should be structured,” the researchers said during the presentation.

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TheWire.in, 19 February, 2018, https://thewire.in/225430/data-set-modis-7-million-jobs-claim-badly-maintained-30-40-unclean/


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