India - Annual Survey of Industries 2000-01

Start	End	Cycle
2001-09-01	2002-04-30	N/A

Statutory return submitted by factories as well as Face to face
Data Collection : The Deputy Director General, FOD(NSSO) has been designated as the SDtatistics Authority under the Collection of Statistics Act, 1953. The FOD of NSSO through its elaborate network of regional and sub-regional offices located in various parts of the country, carries out the field work. Notices are issued by the FOD (NSSO) to owners of the factories enclosing, inter-alia, a complete set of the schedule and instructions requiring them to submit the returns pertaining to the previous financial year by a specified date. Data collection is spread over a prescribed time frame as decided for specific ASI and the returns are regularly despatched to the tabulating agencies after conducting necessary data consistency checks by the NSSO field offices, in accordance with well designed scrutiny procedures and checks.

Annual Survey of Industries Questionnaire (in External Resources) is divided into different blocks:

BLOCK A.IDENTIFICATION PARTICULARS
BLOCK B. PARTICULARS OF THE FACTORY (TO BE FILLED BY OWNER OF THE FACTORY)
BLOCK C: FIXED ASSETS
BLOCK D: WORKING CAPITAL & LOANS
BLOCK E : EMPLOYMENT AND LABOUR COST
BLOCK F : OTHER EXPENSES
BLOCK G : OTHER INCOMES
BLOCK H: INPUT ITEMS (indigenous items consumed)
BLOCK H1: FUELS, ELECTRICITY AND WATER CONSUMPTION
BLOCK I: INPUT ITEMS – directly imported items only (consumed)
BLOCK J: PRODUCTS AND BY-PRODUCTS (manufactured by the unit)

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation
NSSO(Field Operation Division)	NSSO(FOD)	Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation

FOD (NSSO) under the Ministry of Statistics and PI, Government of India is responsible for supervision of data collection.