Shram Bureau Bhawan

Phase-III

All India Quarterly Establishment based Employment Survey (AQEES)

 Labour Bureau has been entrusted with the task of conducting survey of All India Quarterly Establishment based Employment Survey (AQEES). AQEES has two components:

a)    Quarterly Employment Survey (QES) in respect of establishments employing 10 or more workers (mostly constituting ‘organised’ segment)

b)   Area Frame Establishment Survey (AFES) in respect of establishments employing 9 or less workers, from the 9 selected sectors (mostly constituting ‘unorganised’ segment)

 

 Quarterly Employment Survey (QES):

The Labour Bureau initiated the QES to measure the employment estimates in respect of establishments employing 10 or more workers from 9 selected sectors namely Manufacturing, Construction, Trade, Transport, Education, Health, Accommodation & Restaurants, IT/BPO and Financial Services. Till date Reports of four Rounds/Quarter of QES have been released. The sample size for the QES was approximately 12000 establishments each in every quarter.

Quarter/Round Period Date of release of Report

1

April-June, 2021

27.09.2021

2

July-September, 2021

10.01.2022

3

October-December, 2021

28.04.2022

4

January-March, 2022

27.09.2022

 

The Sector-wise Percentage Distribution of Total Estimated Workers by Category and Gender according to the reports of four rounds of QES are given at Annexure I.

Annexure I

 

Sr.

No.

 

Sectors

Total Employment as per QES round I (Apr-Jun, 2021)

(%)

Estimated Total Workers ( in lakh) as per QES round I (Apr-Jun, 2021)

Total Employment as per QES round II (Jul-Sep, 2021)

(%)

Estimated Total Workers (in  lakh) as per QES round II (Jul-Sep, 2021)

 

Total Employment as per QES round III(Oct-Dec, 2021)

(%)

Estimated Total Workers (in lakh) as per QES round III (Oct-Dec, 2021)

 

Total Employment as per QES round IV (Jan-Mar, 2022)

 

(%)

Estimated Total Workers (in lakh) as per QES round IV (Jan-Mar, 2022)

 

M

F

-

M

F

-

M

F

-

M

F

-

-

-

1

Manufacturing

78.6

21.4

125.18

77.4

22.6

121.41

78.50

21.50

124.00

77.92

22.08

122.55

2

Construction

77.5

22.5

7.39

83.5

16.5

6.07

83.71

16.29

6.19

82.85

17.15

6.10

3

Trade

78.6

21.4

20.41

76.4

23.6

16.46

77.04

22.96

16.81

76.68

23.32

16.98

4

Transport

85.1

15.0

13.35

86.3

13.7

14.44

88.27

11.73

13.20

87.54

12.46

13.27

5

Education

56.0

44.0

67.32

55.2

44.8

68.48

56.02

43.98

69.26

56.17

43.83

69.04

6

Health

60.0

40.0

25.96

49.2

50.8

33.45

48.88

51.12

32.86

48.01

51.99

33.80

7

Accommodation& Restaurants

77.0

23.0

8.88

76.5

23.5

7.77

78.96

21.04

8.11

77.32

22.68

8.20

8

IT /BPOs

68.2

31.8

20.71

62.4

37.6

33.21

61.30

38.70

34.57

64.18

35.82

38.31

9

Financial Services

65.6

34.4

17.43

61.6

38.4

8.73

57.77

42.23

8.85

58.98

41.02

9.07

Total

70.7

29.3

308.24

67.9

32.1

310.64

68.41

31.59

314.54

68.23

31.77

318.04

The Sector-wise Percentage Distribution of Total Estimated Workers by Category and Gender according to the reports of four rounds of QES are given in the table below:

 

 

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