The fourth round (January-March 2022) of the Quarterly Employment Survey (QES) was released by Union Labour Minister Bhupender Yadav on September 27.
- QES is a part of the All India Quarterly Establishment based Employment Survey (AQEES).
- 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.
Key findings QES-4th round
- Manufacturing continues to be the largest institutional employer in the country, employing about 38.5% of the workers. Around 3.18 crore workers were employed in about 5.31 lakh establishments between January and March 2022.
- An increase of about four lakh workers compared with the third round of QES, which was done for the last three months of 2021.
- Education, manufacturing, trade and financial services together accounted for 84% of the total estimated units.
- Manufacturing sector accounts for the largest percentage (38.5%) of the total number of workers, followed by education sector with 21.7%, IT/BPO sector with 12% and health sector 10.6%.
- 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.
- 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 share of fixed term employees in the establishments was found to be the least (0.7%) over all.
