Abstract

An all-India survey on unorganised manufacturing enterprises was carried out by the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) as a part of the 62nd round of National Sample Survey (NSS) during July 2005 – June 2006.

The 62nd round was earmarked for survey on (i) unorganised manufacturing enterprises under the two-digit codes 15 to 37 (Section 'D') of NIC-2004 and enterprises under cotton ginning, cleaning and baling (NIC-2004, code 01405), This survey covered: (a) Manufacturing enterprises not registered under Sections 2m(i) and 2m(ii) of the Factories Act, 1948 (b) Manufacturing enterprises registered under Section 85 of Factories Act, 1948 (c) Non-ASI enterprises engaged in cotton ginning, cleaning and baling (NIC- 2004, code 01405) (d) Non-ASI enterprises manufacturing bidi and cigar (those registered under bidi and cigar workers (condition of employment) Act, 1966 as well as those un-registered) and excluded: (a) Repairing enterprises not falling under Section 'D' of NIC- 2004 (b) Departmental units such as Railway Workshops, RTC Workshops, Government Mint, Sanitary, Water supply, Gas, Storage, etc. in line with ASI coverage (c) Units covered under ASI (d) Public Sector Units

The unorganised manufacturing sector has roughly about one-third share in the total contribution by the manufacturing sector in the GDP. Recognizing the importance of the unorganised manufacturing sector in terms of its share in GDP as well as in total employment, NSS has taken up this subject in many of its rounds.

Geographic coverage

The survey covered the whole of the Indian Union except (i) Leh (Ladakh) and Kargil districts of Jammu & Kashmir, (ii) interior villages of Nagaland situated beyond 5 kilometres of the bus route and (iii) villages in Andaman and Nicobar Islands which remain inaccessible throughout the year. All the sample first-stage units of the districts Poonch and Rajouri of Jammu & Kashmir, became casualty and therefore, the districts Poonch and Rajouri of Jammu & Kashmir, are outside the survey coverage. . Thus, the estimates of Jammu and Kashmir and all-India estimates do not include these two districts.

Universe

The survey used the interview method of data collection

Kind of data

Census/enumeration data [cen]

Sampling procedure

Outline of sample design: Two frames were used for the 62nd round survey viz. List frame and Area frame. List frame: This was used only for urban sector and that too for selection of manufacturing enterprises only. For unorganised manufacturing enterprises, a list of about 8000 big non-ASI manufacturing units in the urban sector prepared on the basis of the data of the census of manufacturing enterprises conducted by Development Commissioners of Small Scale Industries (DCSSI) in 2003 was used as list frame.

The 'big' DCSSI units in the urban sector had been identified by the criteria given below:

(1) From the list of registered SSI units, units not registered under sections 2m(i) or 2m(ii) of Factories Act, 1948 and belonging to NIC '98 codes 01405, 15 - 37 were considered.

(2) Out of the above units, the units whose gross value of output in 2001 were more than 6 times the average output (Rs. 14,32,314) of all urban SSI units were separated out.

(3) From the above units, those with 6 or more workers were identified as the big units for list frame. About 8000 such units constituted the list frame.

All these units in the list frame were to be surveyed and there was not any sampling for list frame. To avoid duplication, these units were excluded from the list of enterprises prepared in the selected urban blocks/villages drawn from the area frame. There was no sub-round restriction for the list frame units.

All the enterprises in the list frame are common to both central and state samples.

Sampling deviation

There was no deviation from the original sample deviation.

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument

For collection of data from sample manufacturing enterprises, Schedule 2.2 was designed. The schedule was organized into 15 blocks. t. The items of information collected through different blocks of the schedule included the following:
Block-2- Particulars of operation and background information of the enterprise Block-3-Principal operating expenses
Block-3.1- Other operating expenses Block-4- Principal receipts Block-4.1 Other receipts Block-5-Gross value added
Block-6-Employment particulars
Block-7- Compensation to workers Block-8- Fixed assets owned and hired Block-9-Loan outstanding

Response rate

Out of 8,000 enterprises selected from the list frame, data could be collected from only 2,260 enterprises Thus a large percentage (72%) of the list frame enterprises became casualties. Among the enterprises which were treated as casualties, the majority (around 70%) actually belonged to the category of “Government/public sector undertaking/ASI units”, which were not under the coverage of 62nd round. Another 18% of the enterprises were found to be either non-operative or not traceable.