Lok Sabha Question No. 684 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-11-20
Subject: Data Collection and Analysis
Ministry: STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION
Asked by: Rajendra Agrawal

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.684 TO BE ANSWERED ON 20.11.2019

## DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS

## 684.  SHRI RAJENDRA AGRAWAL:

Will the Minister of STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME

IMPLEMENTATION be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  the  Government  has  been  collecting  data  of employment  generated  across  the  country  in  sets  of  selfemployed,  privately  employed  and  Government  employed
- format for efficient data collection and analysis;
- (b) if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor;
- (c) whether the Government has also been collecting data of those employed through various investments in Infrastructure  projects,  increasing  registration  in  EPFO, etc.; and
- (d) if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

MINISTER  OF  STATE  (INDEPENDENT  CHARGE)  OF  THE  MINISTRY OF STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION AND MINISTER  OF  STATE  (INDEPENDENT  CHARGE)  OF  THE  MINISTRY OF PLANNING [RAO INDERJIT SINGH]

- (a) & (b): Government launched a  new regular  EmploymentUnemployment survey, namely, Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) during 2017-18 with an objective of measuring quarterly changes of various indicators of the labour market in urban areas as well as for

generating annual estimates of these indicators for rural and urban areas.

Based  on  the  Annual  Report  (July,  2017-June,  2018)  of  PLFS,  the Worker Population Ratio (WPR) in usual status at All India was 34.7 percent. The percentage distribution of  workers by  their  status  in employment (self-employed, regular wage / salaried employees and casual labour) is as under:

|                                                    | status in employment   | status in employment   | status in employment   |
|----------------------------------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|
|                                                    | self- employed         | regular wage/ salary   | casual labour          |
| Percentage distribution of workers in usual status | 52.2                   | 22.8                   | 24.9                   |

Further,  the  percentage  distribution  of  workers  in  usual  status  in different type of enterprise in non-agriculture sectors and agriculture  sector  excluding  growing  of  crops,  market  gardening, horticulture and growing of crops combined with farming of animals at all India is as under:

| enterprise type                              |   percentage distribution of workers in usual status |
|----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------|
| proprietary and partnership                  |                                                 68.4 |
| govt./ local body/ public sector enterprises |                                                 12.6 |
| autonomous bodies                            |                                                  0.3 |
| public/ private limited company              |                                                  9.1 |
| co-operative societies                       |                                                  0.4 |
| trust/ other non-profit institution          |                                                  0.9 |
| eemployer's households                       |                                                  1.9 |
| others                                       |                                                  6.4 |
| Total                                        |                                                100   |

(c) & (d): Since April, 2018 the Ministry of Statistics and Programme

Implementation is bringing out the statistics related to employment in  the  formal  sector  covering  the  period  September  2017  onward, using information on the number of subscribers who have subscribed  under  three  major  schemes,  namely,  the  Employees' Provident Fund (EPF) Scheme, the Employees' State Insurance (ESI) Scheme and the National Pension Scheme (NPS).

The number of new subscribers joined during September, 2017 till August, 2019 in these schemes is as under:

| Schemes                          | Number of new subscribers   |
|----------------------------------|-----------------------------|
| Employees' Provident Fund (EPF)  | 2,75,99,241                 |
| Employees' State Insurance (ESI) | 2,97,50,339                 |
| National Pension Scheme (NPS)    | 15,10,475                   |

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