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Employment in fourth quarter
October 2 , 2022
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- The fourth round (January-March 2022) of the Quarterly Employment Survey (QES) was released recently.
- It is a part of the All-India Quarterly Establishment based Employment Survey (AQEES).
- It claimed an increase of about four lakh workers compared with the third round of QES, which was done for the last three months of 2021.
- The Manufacturing continues to be the largest institutional employer in the country, employing about 38.5% of the workers.
- It was 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.
- 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.
- The survey said 86.4% of the workers were regular employees, and 8.7% were contractual employees followed by casual employees (2.3%) and self-employed (2%).
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