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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Hazards of relying on labour bureau's employment data to evaluate job creation -Roshan Kishore

Hazards of relying on labour bureau's employment data to evaluate job creation -Roshan Kishore

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published Published on May 27, 2017   modified Modified on May 27, 2017
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A detailed look at Labour Bureau’s Quarterly Employment Survey (QES) methodology and design suggests that one shouldn’t read too much in these numbers

New Delhi:
Opposition parties and many commentators have been citing the Labour Bureau’s Quarterly Employment Survey (QES) numbers to attack the government over failure to generate employment). How credible are such claims? A detailed look at QES methodology and design suggests that one shouldn’t read too much in these numbers.

According to the QES figures, number of jobs created in 2015 and 2016 are the lowest since 2009, the first year for which these figures are available.

The latest QES report is based on responses/records from economic establishments employing 10 or more workers in eight sectors: manufacturing, construction, trade, health, education, restaurants and accommodation, information technology and business process outsourcing, and transport. QES reports are based on the sixth economic census (2013-14) database, which is perceived to be a comprehensive database of non-agricultural economic establishments in the country.

A cursory look at economic census tables shows that these eight sectors roughly account for 92 million workers, constituting 85% of India’s 108 million workers engaged in non-agricultural activities. These numbers are approximations as detailed data has not been made public for the latest economic census. So, it is difficult to separate employment in health from human health and social work activities, the category for which data is available in economic census tables.

The actual number of workers in the sampling frame of QES reports is much smaller. It was just over 20 million according to the first report for new series, which was released in September 2016. The reason is QES’s criteria of only looking at economic establishments with 10 or more workers.

An earlier Plainfacts column showed that the average number of employees in an Indian economic establishment was only 2.24 in 2013-14. Nearly one-third of non-agricultural employment is in establishments which do not employ even one worker . The share of employment in economic establishments with 10 or more workers has been falling and was just above one in five for the sixth economic census.

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