All India Survey on Domestic Workers kick-started

Highlights:

• Union Labour Minister, Bhupender Yadav, started India’s first survey of domestic workers on November 22, 2021.
• The survey of domestic workers is latest among a group of five national jobs enumeration campaigns, launched with the aim of discerning data on vast informal workforce in India.
• India’s informal workforce will feed a forthcoming national employment policy in the third-largest economy in Asia.
• Domestic workers are considered to be a million strong. 
• However, there is little official information available on their actual numbers & parameters, such as their work conditions and average pay. 
• Lack of these data leaves them out from any formal policy that governs India’s informal workers. 
• Thus, this survey was launched to fill this gap and offer “time-series data on domestic workers. 
• This survey will be conducted periodically to provide crucial data for national employment policy, which is being planned by government.
• All India Survey on Domestic Workers:
• All India Survey on Domestic Workers will provide a headcount of domestic workers and their employers based on nationwide household survey. 
• Under it, specific features of domestic work like living conditions, their employment relationships, will be looked at extensively.
• India’s first survey of domestic workers is part of five other annual surveys conducted by Labour Bureau.

• All-India Survey of Migrant Workers.
• All-India Survey of Domestic Workers.
• All-India Survey of Employment Generated by Professionals.
• All-India Survey of Employment Generated in the Transport Sector.
• All-India Quarterly Establishment-based Employment Survey (AQEES).
• It is noted that AQEES, Labour Bureau had released the results of first All-India Quarterly Establishment-based Employment Survey (AQEES), in September 2021, for April-June 2021 quarter.