Salient Features of Sixth Economic Census
Covered all States
and Union Territories of Indian Union
Fieldwork conducted
during January, 2013 to April, 2014 in collaboration with State/UT Governments
Enumerated all
establishments engaged in various agricultural and non-agricultural activities
excluding crop production, plantation, public administration, defence and
compulsory social security
Used Enumeration
Blocks (EBs) of Population Census, 2011 as the primary geographical units for
collection of data
About 7 lakh
enumerators and 3 lakh supervisors deployed to collect information from the
entire country comprising about 25 lakh Population Census EBs
About 20,000 training
programmes, each with a participation of around 50 persons organized
Certain changes made
in the main schedule of enquiry to guard against omission of home-based
establishments or those operating from outside household without fixed
structure
Data for
handicraft/handloom establishments collected for the first time
A Standing Committee
under the Chairmanship of Chief Statistician of India & Secretary, Ministry
of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) looked into various aspects
of work with technical support provided by a Working Group
State Level
Coordination Committees under the chairmanship of Chief Secretaries and
District Level Coordination Committees under the chairmanship of District
Collectors constituted for smooth conduct of the Census
Overall coordination
at all-India level and guidance provided by the Economic Statistics Division of
CSO (Central Statistical Organization)
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