GS 3: Economy

Why in News?

• In the run up to upcoming 7th Edition of Economic Census, a national training workshop of the Master Trainers was organized by the Ministry of Statistics and Program Implementation (MoSPI).
• 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 establishments 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
• An IT based digital platform for data capture, validation, report generation and dissemination will be used in this Economic Census.

Economic Censuses:

• In 1976, Government of India launched a plan scheme called Economic Census and Surveys.
• It is the census of the Indian economy through counting all entrepreneurial units in the country which involved in any economic activities of either agricultural or nonagricultural sector which are engaged in production and/or distribution of goods and/or services not for the sole purpose of own consumption.
• It provides detailed information on operational and other characteristics such as number of establishments, number of persons employed, source of finance, type of ownership etc.
• This information used for micro level/ decentralized planning and to assess contribution of various sectors of the economy in the gross domestic product (GDP).

Censuses till date:

• Total Six Economic Censuses (EC) have been conducted till date.
• In 1977 CSO conducted First economic census in collaboration with the Directorate of Economics & Statistics (DES) in the States/UTs.
• The Second EC was carried out in 1980 followed by the Third EC in 1990. The fourth edition took place in 1998 while the fifth EC was held in 2005.
• The Sixth edition of Economic Census was conducted in 2013.