Govt set to launch annual job survey

The survey will map Indias job scenario and is being held out as the country's first such effort.

The government is set to launch its most comprehensive survey on the countrys job scenario starting April this year. While the labour ministry conducts employment and unemployment surveys periodically,this will be the first study that will profile all the 600 plus districts of the country and 1.2 billion citizens.

Till now,the responsibility for country wide surveys on employment has been with the National Sample Survey Organisation,which conducts such studies every five years. But the labour ministry is keen to get data on an annual basis.

In the wake of the financial crisis,employment trends have become a crucial indicator of economic recovery. As the survey will cover all districts,it will give us in depth data on employment and unemployment across the country, labour secretary Prabhat Chaturvedi told The Indian Express.

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The survey will be conducted by the Labour Bureau and will start on April 1 to capture data on 2010-11. Its report is expected to be compiled over the next six to eight months.

Along with data on employment and unemployment,the study will also compile figures on key trends like employment in the organised and unorganised sectors,seasonal employment,employment of scheduled castes and tribes and employment of women as well as employment in rural and urban areas.

The survey will not only help get a better understanding of whats happening on the ground level on employment trends but will also help identify sectors and sub sectors that require policy intervention, said an official with the Labour Bureau.

Last year,the labour ministry had surveyed 300 districts across 28 States and Union Territories of the country consisting of 45,859 households to get data on employment trends in 2009-10.

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Apart from trends in employment,the study had also compiled data on demographic characteristics of the work force as well as wages and social security benefits.

It has also started quarterly employment surveys whose findings are available with a mere two month time lag. The aim is to get quick estimates that will help in fast policy action in times of economic crisis.

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