India - Unorganised Service Sector: NSS 57th Round : July 2001-June 2002

India Unorganised Service Sector: NSS 57th Round : July 2001-June 2002

Enterprise Survey The NSSO, since its inception in 1950, has played a major role in providing the socio-economic data needed- from all spheres of life-to formulate of a vibrant plan for social and economic development. In this endeavour, NSS has collected, inter-alia, a series of data on non-agricultural enterprises, particularly those belonging to the unorganised sector. In this series, information on unorganised service sector enterprises have been collected in the 57th round of NSSo, conducted during 2001-02.

ID Number IND-NSSO-57Rnd-Sch2.345-US-2002

The main aim of the survey on unorganised service sector enterprises was to estimate size in terms of the total number enterprises, employment, fixed assets, operating expenses, receipts, value added, loans, gross value added per worker, etc. Information on other attributes like type of ownership, type of operation, number of months of operation, whether carrying out mixed/multiple activity, whether accounts maintained, etc. was also collected. The results pertaining to size, employment and economic indicators of the enterprises have been brought out in the first report*. This report, second in the series, presents the size and employment in brief, and the characteristics of the enterprises in terms of ownership, social group of owner, type of operation, months of operation, whether accounts maintained, nature of problems faced, etc.

1.2.2 Unorganised Services Sector: The 57th round covered broadly all unorganised service sector enterprises engaged in the activities of hotels and restaurants (Tabulation Category H of NIC 98); transport, storage and communication (I); real estate, renting and business activities (K); education (M); health and social work (N) and other community, social and personal

service activities (O).

The survey did not cover the service sector enterprises pursuing the activities of wholesale and retail trade, repair of motor vehicles, motorcycles and personal and household goods (G); financial intermediation (J); public administration and defence (L); private households with employed persons (P) and extra-territorial organisations and bodies (Q).

1.2.2.2 The different tabulation categories mentioned above were further subdivided to form relatively uniform groups/sub-groups. The coverage of the

different activities in the present round has been discussed in detail in Section Two of this report.

Topic	Vocabulary	URI
Infrastructure	World Bank
Social Development	World Bank
Macroeconomics & Growth	World Bank
Labor & Social Protection	World Bank

Unorganised Services (Excluding Trade and Finance) Unorganised Services (Excluding Trade and Finance) Unorganised Services (Excluding Trade and Finance) Unorganised Services (Excluding Trade and Finance), Mixed Activity, Broad Activity Group, Segment number, Own account enterprise (OAE), establishment Enterprise, 5-digit code as per NIC-1998, Nature pf operations - seasonal, perennien and casual, Type of ownership, registered under companies act, Rent, gross value added, Employment, Worker, Fixed assets owned and hired, Banks, Financial Institutions The survey covered the whole of the Indian Union except (i) Leh and Kargil districts of Jammu & Kashmir, (ii) villages in Nagaland situated beyond 5 km of a bus route, (iii) inaccessible villages of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and (iv) some of the villages and blocks

(numbering less than 0.1% of the total) where EC-‘98 could not be conducted. Thus the orresponding State/UT level estimates and the All-India results presented in this report relate to the areas under survey coverage.

The survey did not cover the service sector enterprises pursuing the activities of wholesale and retail trade, repair of motor vehicles, motorcycles and personal and household goods (G); financial intermediation (J); public administration and defence (L); private households with employed persons (P) and extra-territorial organisations and bodies (Q).

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation	Role
Computer Centre	CC	MInistry of Statistics and PI (MOSPI)	Documentation of the study

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