Annexure - Directorate of Economics and Statistics

1.7 Estimates of Value Added Per Worker (VAPW)
The estimates of VAPW for the unorganized and some private organized segments of manufacturing (non-SSI
part) and services sectors have been compiled from the detailed data available from the NSS 62nd round (2005-
06) on manufacturing enterprises in the unorganized sector, and NSS 63rd round (2006-07) on unorganized enterprises
in service sector (excluding trade). The estimates of VAPW at the compilation category level have been arrived at as
a ratio of the gross value added to the total employees in the particular compilation category. The compilation
category wise estimates of VAPW are given in the tables included under the respective sectors.
1.8 Consultation with Expert Bodies
The new series incorporates several conceptual and methodological improvements as well as use of latest
available data. The comprehensive revisions in the new series are also the results of a number of studies initiated by
the CSO in the recent past and also the outcomes of the Committee on “Issues in the Estimation of GDP of Forestry
Sector”. This committee was constituted under the Chairmanship of Shri Ramesh Kolli, ADG, CSO to identify and
address some of the data gaps in the sector. The members of the committee included representatives from the Forest
Survey of India, Indian Council for Forestry Research & Education, Ministry of Environment & Forests, State
Governments of Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Madhya Pradesh and Punjab. Based on the discussions held in the
meetings of the Committee, the industrial wood produced from Trees Outside Forests and fodder from forest
sources have been included in the coverage of GDP estimates in the new series. The changes contemplated in the
new series were discussed in the regional training workshops organized by the CSO for the benefit of officials of
State Directorates of Economics and Statistics (State DESs) and trial new series estimates were also circulated
among the State DESs. Suggestions received from them were considered while finalizing the changes in the new
series of national accounts.
Some of the proposals leading to the changes employed in the new series were discussed in the two Conferences
of the Indian Association for Research in National Income and Wealth (IARNIW) held jointly with (i) Institute for
Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore in November 2008 and (ii) Centre for Development Studies
(CDS), Thiruvananthapuram in January, 2010. The changes effected in the new series in terms of methodology, use
of alternative data sources and the consequential changes in the estimates were also deliberated upon in detail in the
meetings of the Advisory Committee on National Accounts Chaired by Prof. K. Sundaram and having eminent
Economists/Statisticians and representatives of Ministry of Agriculture, Finance, Planning Commission, Reserve
Bank of India, State Governments as members, held on 12th September, 2007, 20th August, 2008, 9th October,
2009 and 5th January, 2010. The changes effected in the new series are in accordance with the advice and
recommendations of the Advisory Committee.
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