1. Employment

Table 1.1: Statistics relate to all factories  employing 10 or more workers with the aid of power and 20 or more workers without the aid of power and to the establishments declared as factories by State Governments under Section 85 of the Factories Act, 1948.

Table 1.2 :  Statistics furnished are based on the annual reports received from States/Union Territories under the Plantations Labour Act, 1951 and the figures indicate average daily employment in Plantations. The employment data relate only to the plantations/estates submitting returns.

Table 1.3 :  The data collected under the various Acts are given in this table.  The figures are not complete or comparable over time due to varying response rates from primary units from year to year. The information is submitted by  various State Governments.

2. Wages and Earnings

Tables 2.1 & 2.2 :  Statistics are collected under the Payment of Wages Act, 1936 relating to  factories defined in Section 2(m) of the Factories Act, 1948. The figures are separately collected for total earnings before deductions of employees covered by the Act and the corresponding average daily employment.  The figures of per capita annual earnings are derived on the basis of these figures. Earnings include basic wages, cash allowance, annual bonus arrears and money value of concessions.  Statistics, presented in the tables relate to workers earning less than Rs. 1,600 per month only and exclude Railway Workshops. The figures are compiled as per National Industrial Classification 1998.

Table 2.3 : State Governments are empowered under the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 to fix minimum rates of wages payable to any employee in the Scheduled employments provided there are not less than 1,000 employees in the employment in a State. States are also empowered to extend the application of the Act to any other employment deemed necessary. Information given in the table depicts the range (Minimum and Maximum) of minimum wages fixed/revised in the Central Sphere and individual States for lowest daily paid and  unskilled workers in different employments. It thus, excludes industries where wages are fixed on a piece-rate basis.

3.  Prices

Table 3.1 (a) and (b)

 All-India Consumer Price Index Numbers for Industrial Workers on base 1982=100 was a weighted average of 70 industrially important centres  indices. This series has been replaced by a new series on base 2001=100 in the month of March, 2006 with the release of January, 2006 index. In the new series of Consumer Price Index Numbers on base 2001=100, various improvements such as increase in the number of centres from 70 to 78, increase in number of markets from 226 to 289,  increase of number of items priced have been incorporated over 1982 series. For further details reference may be made to April, 2006 issue of the Indian Labour Journal. Table 3.1(a) depicts annual average of All-India Consumer Price Index Numbers and month wise All India General and Food index for Industrial Workers. Tables 3.1 (b) depicts Centre-wise Annual Averages of 2006 and  Linking  Factors of all centres (General) between 1982 and 2001 series. 

Table 3.2 :  Consumer Price Index Numbers for Agricultural and Rural Labourers on base 1986-87=100  are presented in this table.

4. Trade Unions

Tables 4.1 & 4.2 :  The data refer to trade unions submitting returns and registered under the Trade Unions Act, 1926. The registration under the Act is not compulsory. The coverage of statistics is also incomplete due to varying  response rate from year to year.

5. Industrial Disputes

Tables 5.1 to 5.11 :  The figures on industrial disputes relate to disputes resulting in work-stoppages and involving 10 or more workers and are exclusive of political or sympathetic strikes.

6. Accidents, Safety and Absenteeism

Table 6.1 :  Figures of injuries in factories relate to number of persons receiving injuries as a result of accidents in factories. Only those injuries from industrial accidents or occupational diseases are recorded by reason, in which persons affected are prevented from attending to work for a period of 48 hours or more. The data relate to only factories submitting returns.

Table 6.2 :  Absenteeism rates given in the table represent percentage of mandays lost due to absence to the corresponding total mandays scheduled to work. The mandays schedules to work is arrived at by adding the mandays actually worked and the mandays lost on account of absence of the workers due to some reasons or the other.