India has not had an economic census for nearly a decade. The sixth economic census was conducted in 2013, results of which were made avail...

As per the survey (QES), which is fourth in series of the revamped survey released last year, manufacturing employed 12.25 million workers ...

With purchasing power going down significantly, rebooting the consumer-based structure is going to be a difficult task. All these assumptio...

Currently, apprentices are allowed largely in the manufacturing sector. The definition of establishment needs to be changed to include any ...

Companies’ performance, which will lead to more hiring, depends on revival of the domestic and international markets. And that rests on job...

The census results are different from those of the household survey, which is also done by the ministry of statistics and programme impleme...

Data on the number of people working in the urban setup was 20,12,026 in 1990. It shot up to 34,15,104 in 1998, but increased marginally to...

At present, the only data source for services sector firms is the enterprises survey carried out by the National Sample Survey Organisation.

Maha is number one in providing employment and number two in the number of establishments, according to provisional results of the 6th Econ...

The number of employed persons in the country grew by 34.35% to 12.77 crore in eight years to 2013, according to the Sixth Economic Census.

Experts feel that there could be greater impact of monsoon on the economy in view of lower industrial growth in the past two years.

Earnings through gambling would be considered as an economic activity by the ongoing economic census if casinos are permitted by the state ...

Keralites living in the Gulf region appealed to the Kerala government to use online means to register people from the state living abroad.

The economic census, which provides basic data on the number of enterprises and people employed, was planned to begin in February 2011.

Anant said that there will be a National Business Register which would have details about the entrepreneurs at village and ward levels.

The mavens at the CSO have begun thinking aloud about the need for a regular index of service production, to complement that for industrial...

Work on India's sixth economic census will begin in 2012 as the government wants to give preference to enumeration of those living below th...