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CSO on
Employment
Status
·
On May 29,
2008 SK Nath,
DG CSO
releasing
the official
Economic
Census for
2005 put
that an
estimated
100.9
million
people were
employed in
41.8 million
establishments
in India,
growing at
2.78 percent
and 4.69
percent,
respectively
between
1998-2005,
·
"This
census gives
us a
complete
picture of
India's
economic
situation.
We must
interpret
the data
intelligently.
There has
been a rapid
growth in
small-scale
industries"
·
Non-farm
sector
continued to
be the
principal
source of
employment,
employing 90
million
people,
compared to
10.9 million
in
agriculture
sector
·
"Retail
and
manufacturing
establishments
continue to
be the key
employment
providers in
India”
·
Manufacturing
sector
employed
25.5 million
people or
25.25
percent of
the total
workforce,
followed by
25.1 million
or 24.91
percent,
respectively
for retail
trade sector
·
This was the
fifth in the
series of
the economic
censuses
conducted by
CSO, an
agency under
the ministry
of
statistics
and
programme
implementation.
·
The first
census of
its kind was
launched in
1977.
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Following
are some of
the key
census
findings:
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100.90
million
people
employed in
41.83
establishments
in India.
-
41.83
million
establishments,
25.54
million in
rural and
16.29
million in
urban areas,
operated in
2005.
-
39.61
million
establishments
under
private
ownership.
-
26.96
million
units were
own
establishments,
without
hired
workers.
-
35.75
million
non-agricultural
establishments
engaged
89.99
million
workers,
while
agriculture
sector's
6.08 million
units had
10.91
million
workers.
-
Employment
growth rate
at 2.78
percent
between 1998
and 2005.
-
Males
accounted
for 78.3
million of
the
workforce;
women
accounted
for 20.2
million,
children 2.4
million.
-
Manufacturing
sector was
the largest
employer
(25.5
million
people); the
retail
sector came
next (25.1
million
people);
farming was
third (9.2
million
people).
-
95
percent
establishments
had 1-5
workers;
3.42 percent
had 6-9
workers;
only 1.51
percent
employed 10
or more
workers.
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