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Bidi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1966. All the electricity
undertakings engaged in the generation, transmission and distribution of
electricity registered with the Central Electricity Authorities (CEA) were covered
under ASI up to 1997-98 irrespective of their employment size. Certain services
and activities like cold storage, water supply, repair of motor vehicles and of
other consumer durables like watches, etc. are covered under the survey. Defence
establishments, oil storage and distribution depots, restaurants, hotels, café and
computer services and also the technical training institutes are excluded from
the purview of the survey. The electricity undertakings registered with the CEA
are not being covered under ASI from 1998-99. However, captive units not
registered with CEA are continued to be covered under ASI.
In addition to the above, now the coverage of ASI has been extended
beyond the purview of the Section 2m (i) and 2m (ii) of the Factories Act, 1948
and the Bidi & Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1966 as
recommended by the Sub-Group on Sampling Design of ASI. For this purpose,
Business Register of Enterprises(BRE) prepared for the respective states and
Directory of Establishments based on Sixth Economic Census would be used
by CSO (IS Wing).
Index of Industrial Production
CSO compiles the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) using secondary data
received from source agencies in various ministries/ departments or their
attached/ subordinate offices. The present base year of IIP is 2004-05. IIP is
released every month in the form of Quick Estimates with a time-lag of 6 weeks
as per the Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS) norms of 23 IMF. Apart
from breakup of the index for mining, manufacturing and electricity sectors,
the estimates are also simultaneously being released as per use-based
classification viz., basic goods, capital goods, intermediate goods, consumer
durables and non-durables. These estimates are revised subsequently on receipt
of updated production data from the 15 source agencies. The major source of
data for IIP is, however, the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion
that supplies data for 268 out of 399 item groups with a weight of 45.6 per cent
in overall IIP.
National Sample Survey Office
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The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO), in Ministry of Statistics and
Programme Implementation, is responsible for conduct of large scale sample
surveys, in diverse fields, on all India basis. Primary data is collected regularly
through nationwide household surveys on various socio-economic subjects,
Annual Survey of Industries (ASI) under the Collection of Statistics Act and
Enterprise Surveys, as a follow up of the economic census. Besides these surveys,
NSSO collects data on rural and urban prices; plays a significant role in the
improvement of crop statistics through supervision of the area enumeration
and crop estimation surveys of the state agencies. It also maintains a frame of
urban real units for drawing samples for socio-economic surveys in urban areas.
The NSSO functions with requisite autonomy, in matters relating to data