Quarterly Employment Survey

• 12 Jan 2022

For Prelims: All-India Quarterly Establishment-based Employment Survey (AQEES), Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS), International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Employment Policy Convention.

For Mains: National Employment Policy (NEP)

Why in News

The Labour Bureau, Ministry of Labour and Employment released the results of the Quarterly Employment Survey (QES) for the Second Quarter of 2021 (July-September).

• Total employment generated by nine select sectors stood at 3.10 crore in the July-September 2021 quarter, which is 2 lakh more than that of the April-June period.

Key Points

• About QES:
  • About: The Quarterly Employment Survey (QES) is part of the All-India Quarterly Establishment-based Employment Survey (AQEES).
    • It covers establishments employing 10 or more workers in the organised segment in 9 sectors.
    • These nine sectors are Manufacturing, Construction, Trade, Transport, Education, Health, Accommodation and Restaurant, IT/ BPO and Financial Services.
    • These sectors account for a majority of the total employment in non-farm establishments.
  • Objective: To enable the government to frame a “sound national policy on employment.”
  • International Commitment: The release of this survey emanates from India’s ratification of the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Employment Policy Convention, 1964.
    • This requires the ratifying countries to implement “an active policy designed to promote full, productive and freely chosen employment.”
    • India does not have a National Employment Policy (NEP) yet.

Note

• QES vs PLFS: While the QES provides a demand-side picture, the National Sample Survey or Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) gives the supply side picture of the labour market.
  • Also, PLFS is conducted by the National Statistical Organization (NSO), MoSPI (Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation).

• All-India Quarterly Establishment-based Employment Survey (AQEES):
  • The AQEES has been taken up by the Labour Bureau to provide frequent (quarterly) updates about the employment and related variables of establishments, in both organised and unorganised segments of nine selected sectors.
    • These sectors altogether account for a majority of the total employment in the non-farm establishments.
  • There are two components under AQEES:
    • Quarterly Employment Survey (QES) and
    • Area Frame Establishment Survey (AFES).
  • QES would provide the employment estimates for the establishments employing 10 or more workers.
  • AFES covers the unorganised segment (with less than 10 workers) through a sample survey.

Source: IE