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, 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