7th Economic Census 2019

7th Economic Census 2019

In the run up to upcoming 7th Economic Census 2019, a national training workshop of the Master Trainers was organized by the Ministry of Statistics and program Implementation. The census is to begin in june this year.

7th Economic Census 2019:

• The 7th Economic Census 2019 is being conducted by MoSPI to provide disaggregated information on various operational and structural aspects of all establishment in the country.
• MoSPI has partnered with common service centres, CSC e- governance services india limited. a special purpose vehicle under the MEITY as the implementing agency for 7th Economic Census 2019.
• An IT based digital platform for data capture, validation, report generation and dissemination will be used in this Economic census.

About Economic census:

• In 1976 government of india launched a plan scheme called economic census and surveys.
• It the census of the indian economy through counting entrepreneurial units in the country which involved in any economic activities of either agriculture or non agriculture sector which are engaged in production and / or distribution of goods and services not for the sohul purpose of own consumption.
• It provides detailed information on operational and other characteristics such as number of establishment, number of persons employed, source of finance, type of owner ship etc...
• This information used for micro level/ decentralize planning and to assess contribution of various sectors of the economy in the gross domestic product.

Censuses till date:

• Total six economic census have been conducted till date.
• In 1977, CSO conducted 1st economic census in the collaboration with the directorate of economics and statistics in the states/UTs.
• The 2nd EC was carried out in 1980 followed by the 3rd EC in 1990.
• The 4th edition took place in 1998 while 5th EC was held in 2005.
• The 6th edition of EC was conducted in 2013.