Seventh Economic Census yet to receive approval from majority of states: MoSPI
seventh economic census is yet to receive approval from a majority of states for the ministry to finalise nationwide results, according to the ministry.
Of the 35 states and UTs participating in the Census, 22 are yet to grant approval.
“As regards to results of the 7th Economic Census, 12 States/UTs have not approved the provisional results, and it is pending in 10 States/UTs for decision on approval. Therefore, the nationwide 7th Economic Census results could not be finalised,” Rao Inderjeet Singh, Minister of State (independent charge) of the Ministry of Statistics Planning and Programme Implementation, informed Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
He further pointed out that West Bengal was the only state not participating, despite consultation and communications with state government officials.
The government last released the sixth economic census in 2016, based on data collected between 2013-14.
The data collection for the seventh economic census began in 2019 and took two years to complete owing to Covid.
The census will form the basis for the creation of a national business register to create a geo-tagged database of all businesses in the country.
ET had earlier reported that the government had already started work on the eighth economic census, as there is an understanding that by the time the results of the seventh EC are available, it would be too late.
The government was to conduct an economic census every five years and was considering a proposal to reduce the timeline of the survey to once every three years, but has not taken a call yet.
The sixth economic census showed nearly 60 million establishments in the country employing 131 million people. The number of enterprises expanded faster between 2005 and 2014,
