India - Annual Survey of Industries 2008-09

Sampling Procedure

The sampling design followed in ASI 2008-09 is a stratified circular systematic one. All the factories in the updated frame (universe) are divided into two sectors, viz., Census and Sample.

Census Sector: Census Sector is defined as follows:

a) All industrial units belonging to the six less industrially developed states/ UT's viz. Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tripura, Sikkim and Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
b) For the rest of the twenty-six states/ UT's., (i) units having 100 or more workers, and (ii) all factories covered under Joint Returns.
c) After excluding the Census Sector units as defined above, all units belonging to the strata (State by 4-digit of NIC-04) having less than or equal to 4 units are also considered as Census Sector units.

Remaining units, excluding those of Census Sector, called the sample sector, are arranged in order of their number of workers and samples are then drawn circular systematically considering sampling fraction of 20% within each stratum (State X Sector X 4-digit NIC) for all the states. An even number of units with a minimum of 4 are selected and evenly distributed in two sub-samples. The sectors considered here are Biri, Manufacturing and Electricity.


There was no deviation from sample design in ASI 2008-09.




No. of units to be surveyed No. of units responded No. of units non-responded Response rate (in %)

58300 52376 5924 89.84


WGT (Multiplier factor) is the weighting variable from Block A: IDENTIFICATION Block. For Census data WGT has been given weight as 1.