Labour Bureau
Government of India

 

STATISTICS

Annual Survey of Industries

Trend in Number of Reporting Factories, Employment,

Absenteeism & Labour Turnover, Average Labour Cost and

Average Wages/Salaries of Employees

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Sl. Parameters                                    Year

No.                             ------------------------------------------------               

                                 2000-01   2001-02   2002-03   2003-04   2004-05

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 1     2                             3         4         5         6         7

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 1. No. of Reporting Factories    128339    125834    125834    125844    136356

 

 2. Average Daily Employment

      a. All Employees           7988233   7751095   7935948   7870081   8453624

      b. All Workers             6135675   5958492   6161493   6086908   6599298

      c. Male Workers            4000370   3771435   3809037   3695860   3863691

      d. Female Workers           881171    889292    929745    894992    987497

      e. Child Workers               666       306       557       385        45

      f. Contract Workers        1253468   1297458   1422155   1495671   1748065

 

 3. Absenteeism Rate (%) @         10.08      9.44      9.61     10.01      8.96

 

 4. Labour Turnover          

      a. Accession Rate (%) @      15.97     15.26     15.44     16.79     18.45

      b. Separation Rate (%) @     17.16     17.43     16.57     18.11     16.94

 

 5. Labour Cost on Employees

    per Manday Worked (Rs.)       256.45    271.96    285.05    305.89    307.76

 

 6. Percentage of Labour Cost to

    Total Cost of Production        7.78      4.35      7.15      6.82      5.81

 

 7. Percentage of Components

    of Labour Cost to Total

    Labour Cost

      a. Wages/Salaries            77.55     76.29     76.59     76.40     77.95

      b. Bonus                      4.44      4.19      4.12      4.11      4.29

      c. Provident Fund            10.75     12.30     11.93     12.12     10.31

      d. Welfare Expenses           7.25      7.22      7.36      7.36      7.45

 

 8. Wages/Salaries per Manday

    Worked (Rs.) by

      a. All Employees            198.88    207.47    218.31    233.71    239.91

      b. All Workers              148.86    152.38    158.75    165.55    168.58

      c. Male Workers             180.02    187.84    197.85    207.72    212.30

      d. Female Workers            78.45     79.13     82.17     87.33     91.00

      e. Child Workers             55.63     38.78     61.87     51.57     28.86

      f. Contract Workers          90.10     90.95     96.68    100.96    109.71

 

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@ Among Directly Employed Regular Workers during the calendar year.

 

NB:   1. Workers are defined to include all persons employed directly or

through any agency, whether for wages or not, in any manufacturing process

or in cleaning any part of machinery or premises used for manufacturing process

or in any other kind of work, incidental to, or connected with the manufacturing

process or the subject of manufacturing process. Labour engaged in repair and

maintenance or production of fixed assets for factory's own use or labour

employed for generating electricity, etc. is also included.

2. Employees include all workers and persons receiving

wage/salary and holding supervisory or managerial positions

engaged in administrative office, store keeping and welfare

sections, sales department as also those engaged in purchase of

raw materials, etc or purchase of fixed assets for the factory and

watch and ward staff.