All-India Quarterly Establishment Based Employment Survey (AQEES):
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Released by: Labour Bureau, Ministry of Labour and Employment
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Purpose: 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.
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Nine Selected Sectors: Manufacturing, Construction, Trade, Transport, Education, Health, Accommodation and Restaurant, IT/ BPO and Financial Services.
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Components: There are two components under AQEES:
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Quarterly Employment Survey(QES): It compiles relevant data from about 12,000 establishments selected through a sampling design to represent each of the nine sectors within each state/ Union Territory, as also each size-class (range of the number of workers) within each sector-State/ UT.
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Area Frame Establishment Survey (AFES): It covers the unorganised segment (with less than 10 workers) through a sample survey.
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Key highlights of QES 2021:
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It shows a 29% increase in employment in nine sectors during the peak Covid-19 months of April-June 2021 over a base of 2013-14 (Sixth Economic Census).
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The most impressive growth of 152% has been recorded in the IT/BPO sector.
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Nearly 90% of the establishments have been estimated to work with less than 100 workers.
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There has been a decline in the share of female workers. From 31% in the 6th EC (2013) to 29% in QES (2021) data.
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Out of the 9 sectors, 7 sectors saw growth in employment while only 2 sectors (Trade, and Accommodation & Restaurants) saw a decline in employment figures.