Service Sector in India 2006-07

NSS 63rd round

The 63rd round (July 2006 - June 2007) of NSS is earmarked for survey on service sector enterprises (excluding Trade). All service sector enterprises, which are not covered under the Annual Survey of Industries (ASI), will be under coverage of the survey. Government and public sector undertakings are not under survey coverage. Usual annual surveys on consumer expenditure is also being carried out during this round.

The descriptions of the service enterprises under the coverage of the survey are given below.

HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS

A hotel is an enterprise that provides lodging services with or without arrangements for meals, other prepared food and refreshments. Dharamshala type lodging places, private guest/rest houses, tourist lodges etc. which provide short-stay accommodation are to be covered under hotels provided they are run by private individuals/organszations. However similar facilities if provided by Govt./PSU/Local body/Statutory bodies (e.g. ISI, IIT,Universities etc.) are excluded from the purview of the coverage of this survey. A restaurant generally provides eating and drinking services where prepared meals, food and refreshments and other snacks are sold for immediate consumption without any provision for lodging. Such enterprises are variously known as restaurants,cafes, cafeteria, snack bars, lunch counters, refreshment stands, milk bar canteens, etc. Bars and other drinking places will also be treated as restaurants. Canteens located in offices, factories, etc. will be treated as restaurants if they are operated by private contractors. But departmental canteens run by government will be excluded.

OTHER LAND TRANSPORT

All types of passenger transport by land (excluding railway) and freight/ goods transport by road will be covered.

WATER TRANSPORT
All kinds of water transport will be covered.

SUPPORTING AND AUXILLIARY TRANSPORT ACTIVITIES; ACTIVITIES OF TRAVEL AGENCIES
Activity of cargo handling, storage and warehousing, supporting services to land transport like operation of railway stations, bus stations, highway bridges, toll roads, vehicular tunnels; parking lots and left luggage facilities at the railway stations, bus stations, traffic control activities, supporting services to water transport such as operation and maintenance of piers, docks, pilotage, loading and unloading of vessels, supporting services to water transport such as operation and maintenance of piers, docks, pilotage, and loading and unloading of vessels,activity of travel agency and tour operators, activities of other transport agency, supporting services incidental to transport such as packing, freighting, travel agency etc. will be covered.

POST AND TELECOMMUNI-CATIONS

All enterprises providing communication services, not owned by government, Public Sector undertakings and local bodies will be covered. This will include courier services, ISD/STD/ PCO booths, voice mail services through computer networking, video/fax services, phone plus services, voiced and non-voiced leased circuits, telex/FAX/data services through computer network, radio paging, e-mail, video conferencing, internet, audio services and activity of cable operators etc.

OTHER FINANCIAL INTERMEDIATION. [This group includes financial intermediation other than that conducted by monetary institutions.]

Monetary intermediation for example banking etc. is excluded from coverage. Activities of hire - purchase financing, housing finance companies, commercial loan companies, other credit activities including pawn shops,other financial intermediation, Mutual Funds, Chit fund/Kuri companies, Investment Companies, Money lending from own source will be considered as an enterprise with separate NIC code (65925). Self-help groups and cooperative credit societies will also be given separate NIC codes 65994 and 65995 respectively.

INSURANCE AND PENSION FUNDING, EXCEPT COMPULSORY SOCIAL SECURITY
Life insurance [this class includes life insurance (including reinsurance) and other long-term insurance, with or without a substantial saving element, including the collection and investment of funds], pension funding [this class includes the provision of retirement incomes, including activities involving the collection and investment of funds (Funding and administration of compulsory social security programmes are classified in class 7530)], and non-life insurance will be covered.

ACTIVITIES AUXILIARY TO FINANCIAL INTERMEDIATION
Administration of financial markets, security dealing activities, activities auxiliary to financial intermediation,activities of financial advisers, mortgage advisers and brokers, foreign exchange services, activities auxiliary to insurance and pension funding, activities of insurance agents, average and loss adjusters, actuaries and salvage administrators etc will be covered.

REAL ESTATE ACTIVITIES
It include activities like: (i) purchase, sale, letting and operating of real estate i.e. residential/non-residential buildings, (ii) developing and sub-dividing real estate into lots, (iii) lessors of real property and (iv) real estate agents, brokers and managers engaged in renting, buying and selling, managing and appraising real estate on a contract or fee basis. Renting of marriage halls, etc. will be considered as an enterprise. Operating of real estate of self owned residential buildings (NIC code 70103) will not be included.

RENTING OF MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT WITHOUT OPERATOR AND OF PERSONAL AND HOUSEHOLD GOODS

Renting of transport equipment, other machinery and equipment [like agricultural machinery and equipment,construction and civil engineering machinery and equipment, office machinery and equipment (including computers)], personal and household goods (like tents, electrical appliances, furniture, video cassettes, CDs,audio cassettes and records etc., books, journals and magazines, musical instruments, bicycle, footwear etc.) will be covered.

COMPUTER AND RELATED ACTIVITIES
Hardware consultancy, software publishing; software consultancy, supply and maintenance; data processing,maintenance and repair of office, accounting and computing machinery, other computer related activities [for example maintenance of websites of other firms/ creation of multimedia presentations for other firms etc.] will be
covered.

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Research and experimental development on natural sciences and engineering, social sciences and humanities will be covered

OTHER BUSINESS ACTIVITIES
Legal, accounting, book-keeping and auditing activities; tax consultancy; market research and public opinion polling; business and management consultancy, architectural, engineering and other technical activities,advertising, labour recruitment and provision of personnel, investigation and security activities, building-cleaning and industrial cleaning activities, photographic activities, packaging activities, photostat, blue-printing, xeroxing,copying of documents, ammonia printing, fashion design related to textiles, wearing apparel, shoes, jewelry,furniture, Interior decoration, secretarial activities such as telephone answering, stenographic, duplicating & mailing etc. will be covered

EDUCATION
All Govt. or Govt.- aided educational institutions will be outside the survey coverage. Educational institutions where salaries of the teachers/ staffs are funded fully by the Government will be considered as Govt. aided educational institution. All private educational institutions will be covered whether or not recognised. This will include management training institutes, computer training centres, nursing schools, schools of music, drama,dance, fine arts, modelling, fashion designing, yoga and physical education and general coaching centres (e.g.
for various competitive examinations) etc. are to be covered. This will also include adult education centers.

HEALTH AND SOCIAL WORK
All enterprises engaged in health and medical services other than those owned by government, public sector undertakings, local bodies will be covered, irrespective of the system of medicine. Hospital activities including those of general and specialized hospitals, sanatoria, asylums, rehabilitation centres, dental centres, nursing homes and other health institutions having accommodation facilities, nurses, physiotherapist etc., independent diagnostic/pathological laboratories, independent blood banks, ambulance services etc. will be covered. All
private dispensaries, clinics and consultation chambers run by doctors will be covered. An employed doctor and para-medical person (such as midwife, dai etc.) doing private practice will be covered and his/her private practice alone will be considered as an enterprise. The survey will also cover activities of veterinary activities including bird hospitals under NIC code 852. Social work with accommodation such as activities of orphanages, children boarding homes and hostels, residential nurseries, homes for aged, physically or mentally handicapped persons
will be covered under NIC code 8531. Social work without accommodation involving variety of social counseling,welfare, refugee, referral and similar services to individuals and families in their homes or elsewhere (e.g. day care centres for children, handicapped etc.) will be covered under NIC code 8532

SEWAGE AND REFUSE DISPOSAL, SANITATION AND SIMILAR ACTIVITIES
Garbage collection, transportation and disposal, removal of human wastes and their treatment and disposal,including maintenance of sewers and drains, outdoor sweeping and watering of streets etc. will be covered.

ACTIVITIES OF RELIGIOUS ORGANISATIONS
Individuals who provide services directly to worshippers will only be covered.

ACTIVITIES OF OTHER MEMBERSHIP ORGANISATIONS N.E.C.
Includes rotary clubs, student associations, war veterans' associations, book clubs, philatelic clubs, associations of minority groups, and the activities of other similar associations / organisations.

RECREATIONAL, CULTURAL AND SPORTING ACTIVITIES
Motion picture, radio, television and other entertainment activities; news agency activities; library, archives,museums and other cultural activities; sporting and other recreational activities will be covered.

OTHER SERVICE ACTIVITIES
Persons providing services to the households, for example cooks, tutors, etc., by visiting the houses of the employer (service consuming households) will not be considered as self-employed. However, if some persons provide legal, accounting or similar services to different enterprises on a fee basis, they will be treated as running own account enterprise.