India - Informal Non-Agricultural Enterprises Survey, July 1999 - June 2000, NSS 55th Round

A hired worker is a person employed directly or through any agency on payment of regular wage/ salary in cash or kind. Apprentices, paid or unpaid, are to be treated as hired workers. Paid household workers, servants and resident workers of the proprietor (in the case of proprietary enterprise) or partners (in the case of partnership enterprise) working in an enterprise are also to be considered as hired workers for the purpose of making entry against this item. It may be noted here that the information regarding working owner/ partner(s) shall be recorded against item 1 only and not against item 2, even if they take regular payment from the enterprise. It is possible that for an OAE also, hired workers may be found in some situations. This may happen when an enterprise is identified as OAE at the listing stage on the basis of one year reference period, but in the reference month there is a hired worker in the enterprise.