7th Economic Census

(Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation)

WHAT

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).

 

OBJECTIVE

• The objective was to impart training to Master trainers (enumerators and supervisors) engaged in Seventh Economic Census (7th EC).
• The participants were trained on the key concepts and definitions, processes, digital platform and application to be used for the enumeration (data capture and supervision) in the field.

 

7th ECONOMIC CENSUS-2019

• The fieldwork for the 7th EC will commence in June 2019.
• 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.
• An IT based digital platform for data capture, validation, report generation and dissemination will be used in this Economic Census.

 

PARTNERS

MoSPI has partnered with Common Service Centres, CSC e-Governance Services India Limited, a Special Purpose Vehicle under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology as the implementing agency for 7th EC.

 

BACKGROUND

• Six Economic Censuses (EC) have been conducted till date.
• The first Economic Census was undertaken in 1977.
• 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.

 

ECONOMIC CENSUS

Economic Census (EC) is the complete count of all establishments/units located within the geographical boundaries of the country.

 

Source: PIB

 

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