AQEES: Third Round of QES Report Released

AQEES UPSC: Relevance

• GS 3: Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization, of resources, growth, development and employment.

QES report: Context

• Recently, Ministry of Labour & Employment has released the Report of third quarter of Quarterly Employment Survey (QES) for the period October-December, 2021, prepared by the Labour Bureau.

AQEES: क्यूईएस रिपोर्ट का तीसरा दौर जारी

Third Round of QES Report Released: Key findings

• These nine sectors accounted for about 85% of the total employment in   units with 10 or more workers in the 6th Economic Census.

• The Report indicates increasing trend in employment in organized segment, employing 10 or more workers, of the selected nine sectors.

• ‘Manufacturing’ sector is the largest employer accounting for around 39% of the estimated total number of workers followed by Education Sector 22%.

• Almost all (99.4%) establishments were registered under different statutes.

• Overall, around 23.55% of units provided on-the-job training to their workers.

• Among 9 sectors, 34.87% of units in health sector provided on-the-job training, followed by IT/BPOs at 31.1%.

• About 1.85 lakhs vacancies were reported across the 9 sectors.

• 85.3% of the workers were Regular workers and 8.9% contract workers.

Third Round of QES Report Released: Sector-wise employment

What is AQEES?

• The objective of AQEES is to provide 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.
• QES captures employment data in respect of establishments employing 10 or more workers, mostly constituting the organized segment, in the nine selected sectors.
• Nine sectors: Manufacturing, Construction, Trade, Transport, Education, Health, Accommodation and Restaurant, IT/ BPO and Financial Services.

About AQEES

• In April 2021, the Ministry of Labour and Employment was entrusted with five major All India Surveys by the Government of India. They are-

1. All-India Survey of Migrant Workers,
2. All-India Survey on Domestic Workers,
3. All-India Survey on Employment generated in Transport Sector,
4. All-India Survey of Employment Generated by Professionals and
5. All-India Quarterly Establishment based Employment Survey (AQEES)

• Design and development: Above five surveys have been developed and designed by Labour Bureau under the technical guidance of an expert group chaired by Prof S. P. Mukherjee and co-chaired by Dr Amitabh Kundu.
• Expected benefits:
  • Promote paperless collection of data as these surveys will use tablet PCs in the field work.
  • Use of latest technology is likely to reduce the survey completion time by at least 30 – 40%.
  • For the first time, these surveys will be conducted in major regional languages.
  • These surveys will plug in the data gap on various aspects of labour and employment.
  • These surveys will aid evidence-based policy-making processes.

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