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Employment surveys should be made more relevant

The Labour Bureau under the Union Ministry of Labour and Employment has released its report on the new Quarterly Employment Survey (QES), which is meant to examine shifts in job patterns in nine major sectors of the urban economy: Manufacturing, construction, trade, transport, education, health, hospitality, IT, and financial services. The QES is meant to focus mainly on the “formal” or organised sector, given that it is limited to establishments with more than 10 employees; the plan is to merge it with a survey of smaller enterprises after a year to build a holistic picture of the economy. This is