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• The Union Labour Ministry has released the fourth round (January-March 2022) of the Quarterly Employment Survey (QES), which is a part of the All India Quarterly Establishment based Employment Survey (AQEES).

Highlights of the Survey

• The survey estimated that around 3.18 crore workers were employed in about 5.31 lakh establishments between January and March.
• It claimed an increase of about four lakh workers compared with the third round of QES, which was done for the last three months of 2021.
• Manufacturing continues to be the largest institutional employer in the country, employing about 38.5% of the workers.
• Education, manufacturing, trade and financial services together accounted for 84% of the total estimated units.
• Almost 80% of the establishments engaged 10 to 99 workers. About 12% of the establishments reported fewer than 10 workers. Only 1.4% of the establishments surveyed reported at least 500 workers. Such large establishments were mostly in the IT/ BPO sector and in the health sector.
• The participation of women workers witnessed a marginal increase from 31.6% in the third quarter to 31.8% in the fourth quarter report. However, women workers constituted about 52% of the workforce in the health sector, while the corresponding percentages in education, financial services and IT/ BPO sectors stood at 44%, 41% and 36%, respectively.
• The survey said 86.4% of the workers were regular employees, and 8.7% were contractual employees followed by casual employees (2.3%) and self-employed (2%).
• The Labour Bureau had taken up AQEES to provide quarterly estimates about employment and related variables of establishments in both organised and unorganised segments of nine sectors — manufacturing, construction, trade, transport, education, health, accommodation and restaurant, IT / BPO and financial services.

Reference:

1. https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/survey-shows-increase-in-employment-in-fourth-quarter-of-last-fiscal-manufacturing-largest-contributor/article65943201.ece