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GOVERNMENT OF KERALA 	
 
 	
 
 	
Provisional Report  on 
6
th	
  Economic  Census  	
 
 
 
 
 
 
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS & STATISTICS 	
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM 2014

19.12.14 	
 
Message 	
 
 
Economic Census holds significance in the context of the country's planning and 
budgetary works, framing of key policies, projects and schemes. The Sixth 
Economic Census held in Kerala from May 2013 to June 2013 has presented us 
with several facts and indicators, which I am sure, would hold the key to our 
overall economic growth. For instance, it was in the Sixth Economic Census that 
details of handicraft and handloom establishments were collected for the first time. 
This holds significance in developing the economy of the rural sector.     
 
I am glad to know that the Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Government of 
Kerala will be releasing the Provisional Results of Sixth Economic Census.    I am 
aware of the fact that the whole census exercise was a huge task and I congratulate 
officials of the State, the Central Statistical Office and all others who were 
involved in it	
. 	
   	
 
KC.JOSEPH

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Preface 	
 
  The Economic Census is the official count of all establishments (ie., units 
engaged in production and/or distribution of goods and services not for the 
purpose of sole consumption) located within the geographical boundaries of the 
country.  It provides the latest number of establishments in the state and the 
number of persons employed therein along with their geographical distribution, 
type of structure, type of ownership etc.  The 6th Economic Census was conducted 
in the State during the period from May 2013 to June 2013. 
 
  The conducting of the Economic Census was a mammoth task, including 
imparting of training to enumerators selected from open-market, wide publicity 
campaign to facilitate the collection of information from all the sectors of the 
economy. 
 
  The remarkable feature of the 6th Economic Census is that the 
Enumeration Blocks of “Population Census-2011” were used as the smallest unit 
for enumeration.  This census is the maiden venture for the collection of 
handicraft/handloom establishments separately and the number of persons 
working in this sector.  The collection of Statistics Act 2008 was invoked to collect 
timely and accurate information. 
 
  This report is based on the information collected in Schedule 6B, ie., the 
‘Establishment Abstract’.   
 
  This report is prepared by the Economic Census Division of the 
Directorate.  The officials of Central Statistical Office and MOSPI extended their 
whole-hearted support guidance and fund for the successful completion of the 6th 
Economic Census in time. I take this opportunity to express my sincere thanks to 
each one of them.

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  I am extremely thankful to Sri. Jose Cyriac, the former Chief Secretary, 
Government of Kerala & Sri.V.S.Senthil, the former Principal Secretary, Planning 
& Economic Affairs Department, for the s
upport and guidance in carrying out the 
6th Economic Census  in the state. 
 
  I would also like to express my gratitude to Sri.E.K. Bharathbhooshan, the 
Chief Secretary, Government of Kerala and Sri.P. Mara Pandiyan, the  Principal 
Secretary, Planning & Economic Affairs Department, Government of Kerala for 
the technical guidance and support for the smooth conduct of the Census. 
 
  I also extend my sincere thanks and  appreciation to all the members of the 
State Level Steering Committee and District Level Monitoring Committee for their 
efforts in making the census a grand success in the State. 
 
  And finally, I express my gratitude and appreciation to all the officers and 
departmental staff in the districts with special mention to the Economic Census 
Division in the Directorate whose tireless efforts helped in the timely and 
successful completion of the Economic Census. 
 
  Suggestions or improvements on this report are most welcome . 
           
 	
 
V.Ramachandran  Director General 
 
Thiruvananthapuram

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MAIN FEATURES OF 6	TH ECONOMIC CENSUS 	
  	
 	The Economic Census enumerated all establishments engaged in various 
agricultural and non-agricultural activities excluding crop production, 
plantation, public administration, defense and compulsory social security 
services 	
 	Enumeration Blocks of Population Census 2011 were used as the primary 
geographical units for collection of data. 	
 	Data for handicrafts/handloom establishments were collected for the first time. 	
 	Field work was conducted during May-June 2013 as per the directions of 
Central Statistical Office. 	
 	Total number of establishments counted is about 33.76 lakhs. 	
 	Out of the 33.76 lakh establishments 18.16 lakhs are in the rural sector. 	
 	About 16.30% of the establishments are found to be outside the household 
without fixed structure. 	
 	43.96% of the establishments are functioning inside the households. 	
 	Growth rate in number of establishments over 5	th EC (2005) is 21.33%. 	
 	Total number of persons employed is 69.19 lakhs with rural share  47.39% 	
 	Percentage of hired workers is 46.42% 	
 	Percentage of female workers in total workers is  39.19% 	
 	The growth rate in total employment over 5	th EC is 26.49%

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CONTENTS 
 	
Sl. 
No.  Items   Page  
No. 
1 Introduction  -  1 
2  Provisional Results – At a Glance -  11 
3 Tables  -  25 
4  Conce pts a nd Definitions o f Important  Terms  - 37 
5 Annexures     
  I   -  Committees and Working Groups   39 
  II  -  State Level Steering Committee 
    -  District Level Monitoring Committee  - 40 
  III -  Schedules – 6A, 6B, 6C  - 41 
6 Album   - 47

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Sixth Economic 
Census - 2013 	
 
 
Introduction 
 
 	
Economic Census is a periodic 
count of all the economic entities 
(i.e., units engaged in production 
and/ or distribution of goods and 
services not for the sole purpose of 
consumption) functioning within the 
geographical boundaries of the 
country.  It is conducted on an all 
India basis covering all the States 
and Union Territories.    
 
In order to achieve the balanced 
growth of agricultural and non-
agricultural sectors, sound and 
reliable statistical data is a 
prerequisite to formulate policies 
and programmes for the overall 
economic development of the nation.   
 
The Central Statistics Office in 
the Ministry of Statistics and 
Programme Implementation 
conducted 6th Economic Census 
during January 2013 to April 2014 in 
collaboration with Directorates of 
Economics & Statistics in all the 
States and Union Territories. As per 
the Gazette of India No.2495 Part II 
Section 3 Subsection II dated 
20/12/2012, 6th Economic Census is  notified, in exercise of the powers	
 	
conferred by Sections 3 & 4 of the 
Collection of Statistics Act 2008	
 	
(No.7 of 2009 read with rules 5 & 7) 
of the Collection of Statistics Rules 
2011. 
 
 
Economic Census provides 
detailed information on operational 
and economic variables, activity 
wise, of the establishments of the 
country including the distribution at 
all India, State, District, and Village/ 
Ward levels for comprehensive 
analysis of the structure of the 
economy (micro, macro,    and 
regional  levels) and for benchmark 
purposes.  The database also serves 
as a sampling frame for drawing 
samples for socio economic surveys 
by Government and research 
organizations. 
 
 
The 6th Economic Census was 
intended to provide up-to-date 
information on number of 
establishments and number of 
persons employed therein and a 
frame of all establishments engaged 
in various economic activities both 
in the organized and unorganized 
sectors of the economy (excluding 
crop production, plantation, public 
administration, defense and 
compulsory social security 
activities).

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History 
 
 
 	
The Central Sector Scheme on 
Economic Census was formulated 
initially by Central Statistical 
Organization in 1976.  Since then 
five Economic Censuses have been 
undertaken during the years 1977, 
1980, 1990, 1998 and 2005.   
 
The first Economic Census was 
conducted in 1977 covering only 
non-agricultural establishments 
employing at least one hired worker 
on a fairly regular basis.  The second 
and third Economic Censuses were 
conducted in 1980 and 1990 along 
with house listing operation of 1981 
and 1991 Population Censuses 
respectively. These two Economic 
Censuses covered all agricultural 
and non-agricultural establishments 
excepting those engaged in crop 
production and plantation.  The 
fourth and fifth Economic Censuses 
were carried out in 1998 and 2005 
respectively with the same coverage. 
 
 
The Sixth Economic Census 
covered all agricultural and non-
agricultural establishments excepting 
those engaged in crop production 
plantation, Public Administration, 
Defense & Compulsory Social 
Security Services Activities. 	
Objectives 
 
 	
The Economic Census is 
conducted to measure the magnitude 
of change that takes place in the 
economy by studying the count and 
various characteristic features of 
enterprises set up in the country,  like 
number of workers, activities, area 
wise operation etc.  It provides an up 
to date frame from which samples 
could be drawn for collecting 
detailed information through follow-
up surveys. The Economic Census 
also facilitates a comparative study 
of the performance of agricultural 
and non-agricultural enterprises-
rural-urban break-up of enterprises 
and estimation of the contribution of 
unorganized sector to GDP through 
follow-up Surveys. The Directory of 
Establishments employing ten or 
more workers will serve the local 
level planning purposes since it 
provides detailed information on 
number of establishments, number of 
workers by industry, type of 
ownership etc even at the micro 
level in the unorganized sector.

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Scope and Coverage 
 
 	
The 6th Economic Census was 
undertaken by enumerating all the 
agricultural and non-agricultural 
enterprises engaged in production 
and/or distribution of goods and/or 
services not for the sole purpose of 
consumption by the household/ 
enterprise.  All such economic 
activities except crop production, 
plantation, public administration, 
defense and compulsory social 
security service activities are under 
the purview of this census.   
 
 
The activities of nomadic 
population were kept out of the 
purview of 6thEconomic Census.  
The establishments engaged in 
illegal activities like smuggling, 
gambling, beggary, prostitution etc 
and those who  work as domestic 
servants, wage-paid employees of 
casual nature, house hold members 
engaged in house hold chores, casual 
workers (loading unloading, helping 
a mason or a carpenter, doing earth 
work for a contractor) etc were also 
kept out of the survey.  House hold 
members working for other 
households and earning some money 
which is insignificant and those 
households depending on remittance, 
rent, interest, pension etc were also 
excluded from the survey. 
 	
Committees and Working 
Groups 
 	
  At national level, a Standing 
Committee was constituted under the 
chairmanship of Chief Statistician of 
India and Secretary, Ministry of 
Statistics and Programme 
Implementation provided overall 
direction and guidance for the 
conduct of 6th Economic Census. 
Other members of the committee are 
listed in the  annexure I. 
 
 
 
 This Committee was assisted 
by a Working Group headed by Prof. 
S. P. Mukherjee, retired professor 
and Head of Department of 
Statistics, Calcutta for the 
development of concepts and 
definitions, strategy for conduct of 
field work, tabulation of data and 
dissemination of results.  The 
Economic Census Unit of 
Economics and Statistics 
Department, CSO provided all the 
technical and secretarial assistance 
to the Committees and Working 
Groups.

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Sixth Economic Census in 
Ker ala 
 
 	
For the smooth conduct of the 
Economic Census as per the 
direction of Government of India, 
Government of Kerala has 
constituted State Level Steering 
Committee and District Level 
Monitoring Committee	
. 
 
 	
State Level Steering 
Committee 
 	
The Chief Secretary of the 
State was designated as the Ex-
officio Chief Economic Census 
Commissioner of the State and the 
Director of Economics & Statistics 
as the Member Secretary. The other 
members of the Committee are 
enlisted in  Annexure II. 
 
 	
District Level Monitoring 
Committees 
 	
The District Level Committee 
was constituted under the 
Chairmanship of the District 
Collector designated as the Ex-
officio Chief Economic Census 
Commissioner of the district and 
Deputy Director of the District 
Office of Economics and Statistics 
as Member Secretary. The other 
members of the Committee are given 
in	
  Annexure II .  	
Changes made in the 
Sixth EC 
 
(i )  Coverage 
 	
The Sixth Economic Census 
covered all agricultural activities 
excluding crop production and 
plantation as followed since 2nd 
Economic Census.  The 
establishments engaged in public 
administration, defense and 
compulsory social security activities 
were excluded during Sixth 
Economic Census as against Fifth 
Economic Census. 	
 
(i i)   Changes made in the 
Schedule 
 
In Sixth Economic Census two 
schedules were canvassed viz, 	
 
a) House and Establishment 
Listing Schedule (6A) and  	
 	
b)  Directory of Establish-
ments Schedule (6C) in the 
place of three schedules 
canvassed during 5	
th 
Economic Census.   	
 	
c)  The third schedule 6B was a 
derived schedule of 
summary information based 
on the information 
contained in House and 
Establishment Listing 
Schedule prepared by the 
enumerator

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(iii)  Inclusion of New Items/ 
Changes made in Main 
Schedule i.e, House and 
Establishment Listing 
Schedule : 
 
 	
a.  Number of members in the 
household (HH); 
 
b.  Number of only wage earners 
/salaried employees in the HH; 	
 	
c.  Number of establishments 
outside HH with fixed structure 
owned by HH members; 	
 	
d.  Number of establishments 
outside HH without fixed 
structure owned by HH 
members; 	
 	
e.  Number of establishments 
inside HH owned by HH 
members; 	
 	
(Items under ‘a’ to ‘e’ above 
were included at the household 
level to guard against possible 
under-listing of establishments 
located within the household or 
those without fixed structure) 
 	
f.  Broad activity code (all 
activities divided into two-digit 
24 broad activity codes); 
 
  g.
 Three-digit NIC Codes 
recorded in place of four-digit 
NIC codes earlier, to minimize 
wrong reporting of NIC codes; 	
 
h.  Data collected for handicraft/ 
handloom establishments for 
the first time; 
 
i.  Information on ownership of 
proprietary establishments 
collected for transgender for the 
first time; 
 
j.  Religion of the owner of 
proprietary establishments; 
 
k. Nature of operation: ‘Non 
perennial’ was divided into 
casual and seasonal; and  	
 	
l.  Bar Codes along with Form 
Number were used for the first 
time to facilitate proper 
accounting of canvassed 
schedules. 
 
 
 	
(iv)   Items Excluded from the 
Main Schedule i.e., House 
and Establishment 
Listing Schedule: 
 	
a.  Information on subsidiary 
activity (only in formation on 
major activity collected);

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b.
 Power used in entrepreneurial 
activity (confined to Directory 
of Establishment schedule); 
 
c. Registration code (confined to 
Directory of Establishment 
schedule); 
  d. Number of children (male/ 
female) usually working. 
 
(v )   New Items Added in the 
Directory of Establish-
ment Schedule: 
 
a.  Do a computer and/or internet 
facility exist in the 
establishment? 
 
b.  Whether using power in 
production of goods and 
services? 
 
c. Whether an exporting unit? 
  d. Address of main office along 
with that of branch office with 
PAN and TAN numbers 
e.  Registration information under 
9 codes 	
 	
Other Important Changes 
introduced by CSO 	
 	
  Enumeration Blocks (EBs) of 
Population Census 2011 were used 
as  primary geographical units for 
both urban and rural areas for the    
purpose of listing of establish-
ments.    
  Reference period for counting 
number of persons employed:  In 
Fifth EC, last year / season was 
taken.  For Sixth EC, number of 
persons employed on the last 
working day has been considered. 
 
   Minimum qualification for 
enumerators and supervisors was 
prescribed for the first time for 
better understanding of the terms 
used in schedules and for ensuring 
proper collection of data.  The 
minimum qualification are as 
under: 
 
o   Qualification of Enumerators: 
Higher Secondary 
 
 
o   Qualification of Supervisors: 
Graduation. 
   
   Developed a Logo for   Sixth EC. 
The Logo has four elements   viz. 
factory, gears, writing hand   and 
common people.  The factory 
symbolizes large scale industry, 
the gears symbolize the work and 
functionality with reference to 
economy and the Common people 
represent small scale industry. The 
writing hand represents recording 
of the census data.  The green 
colour shows ecology and the blue 
represent industrial functioning.

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
  CSO supplied Schedules to District 
Statistical Offices (DSO) / Head 
Quarters of DESs of all the States / 
UTs for maintaining uniformity in 
the schedules to facilitate proper 
data processing. 
 
  A Census Kit containing plastic 
folders for each of the three 
schedules, board, pencils, ball 
pens, sharpener, eraser, markers, 
chalk box, clips and calculator was 
provided to each enumerator and 
supervisor for safe keeping and 
facilitating proper collection of 
information. The NIC coding in 
Column 13 of the House and 
Establishment Listing Schedule-6A 
has been done by trained staff o f 
DESs at respective DSOs. 	
 	
  Information contained in Directory 
of Establishment Schedule is 
entered by trained officials of DSO 
for ensuring correct and complete 
addresses.  Software was 
developed and training provided 
for it by Computer Centre, MOSPI. 
 
   Abridged  House List (AHL) an d 
Layout Maps (LMs) of Census 
2011 EBS were provided to the 
Enumerators to facilitate proper 
coverage. 
 
  Wide publicity was made through 
print, audio and video media to 
communicate the masses about the 
importance of Sixth EC and  soliciting their co-operation in data 
collection. 
 
    Data collected was inspected at all 
levels and the same was cross  
validated by using information 
available with alternative sources 
such as number of industrial and 
commercial electricity connections 
at State / District level and 
Registrations in District Industries 
Centers and results based on NSS 
Reports in order to increase 
credibility of the information 
co llec ted in the Census . 
 
   Computer Centre, CSO would 
undertake validation and tabulation 
of data of Sixth EC using the 
relevant Software, with 
connectivity provided to all the 
State / UT DESs, so that all State / 
UT Specific and All India tables of 
Sixth EC may be generated with 
drag and drop operations. 
 
Funds    Economic Census is a 100% 
centrally sponsored scheme and  an 
amount of Rs.1945.25 lakhs has been 
allotted to Kerala for conducting the 
Census. Under this Scheme posts of 
Joint Director-1, Assistant Director-1, 
Research Assistants-2, Statistical 
Assistant Grade-I-3, Computer 
Operator Gr. - 1 and L D Typist-1 
have been sanctioned for the smooth 
conduct of the survey in Kerala.

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  Training 
 
An All-India Conference of 
State Secretaries in–charge of 
Planning and Statistics and Directors 
of Directorate of Economics And 
Statistics relating to implementation 
of the scheme was organized in New 
Delhi. 
 
On the basis of the decision 
taken in this Conference, the 
Ministry conducted seven Regional 
Trainings for the purpose of Training 
of Trainers at different places in 
India.        A     representative  from    
 
 
 
Craft Council of India also partici-
pated in the training programme and 
provided instructions/ clarification 
regarding handicrafts/handloom 
items for the proper identification 
and listing of handloom/handicrafts 
activities in the census.   
 
A Regional Training of the 
Southern States organized by CSO 
for the purpose of Training of 
Trainers was held at Thiru-
vananthapuram for two days. 	
Regional Level Training Programme    of southern states organized by CSO

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State Level Training 
Programme was held at Thiruvanan-
thapuram organized by the 
Directorate of Economics & 
Statistics, Kerala.       Subsequently, 
Regional Level Training programme 
for two days was held at Kottayam 
& Kozhikode districts. The district 
officials in turn provided training to 
field functionaries like Enumerators, 
Supervisors and Charge Officers. 
 
 
Publicity 
 
 
  In order to make the public 
fully aware of its importance and 
ensure cent percent participation and 
co-operation, advertisements were 
made by the Central Statistical 
Office through newspapers, radio 
and TV Channels to promote Census 
operation. 
 
  Besides that the State DES also 
gave wide publicity about the 
importance of the Census by means 
of posters, banners, pamphlets and 
bit notices, among the public.  
 
 
Field Operation    The Economic Census was 
conducted during 1	
st 	May 2013 to 
30	th June 2013 in Kerala. There were 
67,500 enumeration blocks in the 
2011 Population census consisting of  around 150 households in each EB.  
The frame for Economic Census was 
the same as that of 2011 population 
census. 	
   
The field work was done by 
9500 enumerators under the 
supervision of 2200 department / 
open field supervisors after thorough 
training at various levels.  Each and 
every household in Urban and Rural 
areas was enumerated and 
information collected on all 
enterprises including household and 
own account enterprises.   
 
 	
 
 	
 
 
Enumerators and Supervisors canvassing 
schedules of the 6	th Economic Census at 
Edamalakkudi a Tribal Village, a difficult 
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Schedules Used in the 
Sixth Economic Census 
 	
Three types of schedules were 
used in the Sixth Economic Census: 
  6A–House and Establishment 
Listing Schedule 	
 	
6B–Establishment Abstract 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
6C–Directory of Establish-
ments. 
 
Schedule formats are 
given at  Annexure-III  	
 
 	
 
 
 
 
 
 	
Inspection of field work by P A Joseph, Nodal Officer of the Sixth 
Economic Census

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Provisional Results of Sixth Economic Census - 
 At  A Glance* 	
Sl. 
No.  Item  Rural Urban  Total 	
Kerala India Kerala India Kerala  India 	
1 
  No of Establishments (in 000)  1816 35023 1560 23447  3376  58470	
Percentage share 
53.79 59.90 46.21 40.10  100.00  100.00	
2 Number of Establishments(in 000) 	
1 Outside household 
without fixed structure  273 7333 277 4646 550 11979
2 
Outside household with 
fixed structure  608 11175 734 12872 1341 24047
3 Inside household 
935 16515 549 5929  1484  22444
Percentage share in total Establishments 
1 Outside household 
without fixed structure  15.04 20.94 17.78 19.81 16.3 20.49
2 Outside household with 
fixed structure  33.47 31.91 47.04 54.90 39.74  41.13
3 Inside household  51.49 47.15 35.18 25.29  43.96  38.39	
3 Handic rafts/Handloom 	1 
Number of Establishments 
(in000)  16.07 1294 15.60 899 31.70  2193
2 
Percentage share in total 
Establishments  0.89 3.69 1.00 3.83 0.94  3.75	
4 Growth rate (%) in nu mber o f 
establishments over Fifth 
Economic census**  -13.02 39.28 124.58 45.57 21.33  41.73
5 
  Number of persons employed 
(in 000) 
3279 66289 3640 61419 6920 127708	
Percentage share 
47.39 51.91 52.61 48.09  100  100	
6 Percentage of hired workers in 
the total persons employed  36.82 34.67 55.07 57.59 46.42  45.69
7 
Percen tage  of female workers 
in the total persons employed  43.33 30.9 35.46 19.8 39.19  25.56
8 Growth rate(%) in total 
employment over Fifth 
economic census** 
-13.25 31.59 115.37 37.46 26.49  34.35
*
				 Excluding 	cro p 	production, 	plantation, 	public 	administration, 	defense 	&compulsory 	so cial 	security 	services 	
						 activities 	
** 	Duration 	of 	field 	work 	of 	Fifth 	Economic	 census	is 	June 	‐	September 	2005 	& 	Sixth 	Economic 	census 	is 		
				 May 	‐June 	2013

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Thiruvananthap uram 
district accounts for  the major share of 
establishments in the 
combined sector 	
 
 
 	
  The detailed provisional results 
are presented in 10 tables given in 
Tables.   The tables 1 to 3 give the 
sector wise, (rural, urban, combined), 
district-wise total number of 
establishments, total persons 
employed as well as total number of 
handicraft / handloom establishments.  
   
 	
Tables 4 to 5 give the district-
wise, sector-wise, percentage of 
establishments and persons employed 
and also percentage shares of districts 
in to ta l n umbe r o f establishments  in 
the state and  percentage shares of 
dis tricts in the to ta l numb er of persons 
employed by them.  They also give an 
overall view of the district-wise / 
sector-wise growth in the total number 
of establishments (excluding crop 
production, plantation, public 
administration, and defense 
and compulsory social 
security service 
activities) and 
employment as 
compared to fifth 
Economic Census 
(2005).	
   	
 
  Table 6 gives the district-wise/ 
sector-wise percentages of 
establishments by the type of 
structure.  
  
 
   Table 7 depicts a picture of the 
district-wise /sector-wise number of  handicraft/handloom establishments 
and their percentage distribution.  
 
   Table 8 is on the district-
wise/sector-wise percentage of hired 
workers and percentage of female 
workers. Table 9 presents the growth 
of enterprises and percentage of 
increase in the number of 
establishments over the years. The	
 	
growth of employment over the years 
and percentage of increase in the 
employment in the five Economic 
Censuses conducted since 1980 to 
2013 is presented in Table 10. 
 
 
Establishments 
 
 	
According to the provisional 
results, there are 33.76 lakh 
establishments in the state engaged in  different economic activities other than 
crop production, plantation, public  administration, 
defense and 
compulsory social 
security services.  Out of 
which 18.16 lakhs are in rural sector 
and 15.60 lakhs are in the urban area.   
              Thiruvananthapuram, 
Ernakulam, Malappuram, Thrissur and 
Kannur together constitute 50.51% of 
the total number of establishments in 
the	
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  On analyzing the percentage–
wise distribution of establishments it 
can be seen that nearly 54% of the 
establishments are in rural sector and 
46% in the urban sector. 	
	
	
		
Top 5 Distr icts 
 
          	
 
Thiruvananthapuram district 
contribute the highest number of 
establishments in the state according 
to the 6th Economic Census	
.    
 	
   The percentage share of 
Thiruvananthapuram in the total 
number of establishments in the state 
is 13% followed by Ernakulam ie., 
11.52%. 
 	
 
Percentage Share of districts in total 
Number of Establishments 
 
 	
         In  comparison  with  the  growth 
rate of  5th Economic Census, it can 
be seen that Thiruvananthapuram 
district shows the highest growth rate 
in the total number of establishments 
ie, 79.50% followed by Malappuram 
ie, 60.19%. In contrast, Alappuzha and 
Kollam districts show a negative 
growth rate, ie. -21.94% and -12.36% 
respectively.  The state of Kerala as a 
whole presents a growth rate of 
21.33% compared to the national 
average of 41.73% 	
          
       Names 	
Number 	
in    	
Lakhs 	
Thiruvananthapuram 	 	4.39	 	
Ernakulam                 	 	3.89	 	
Malappuram              	 	3.35	 	
Thrissur           	 	2.88	 	
Kannur                      	 	2.54	 	
Total  Number  of Establishments  in 
Kerala  is 3375567  

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Handicrafts/Handloom 
Establishments 
 
 
 	
There are about 31,715 
handloom/ handicraft establishments 
in the state accounting for about 
1.45% of the total number of 
handloom/ handicraft establishments 
in the country.  Thrissur district 
accounts for the highest number of 
handloom/ handicraft establishments 
6802 Nos. (21.45%), closely followed 
by Thiruvananthapuram district with 
5942 number of establishments 
(18.74%) and Ernakulam and 
Kottayam districts with 3733 numbers 
(11.77%) and 3516 numbers (11.09%) 
respectively. 
 
             Out  of  these  31,715 
handloom/handicraft establishments 
16,074 Nos. are in rural sector and 
15641 Nos. are in urban sector 
accounting for	
 	1.24% and 1.74% 
respectively of the total number of 
establishments in the country	
. 
 
 
 
Establishments by Type of 
Struct ure 
 
 	
13.41 lakh establishments are 
found to be operating outside the 
household with fixed structure, 5.50 
lakh establishments outside the 
household without any fixed structure 
and 14.84 lakhs are functioning inside 
the household.   
 
Out of the total 33.76 lakhs 
establishments in the state, 39.74% of 
the establishments are found to be 
functioning outside the household with 
fixed structure, 16.30% outside the 
household without fixed structure and 
majority are functioning inside the 
household ie., 43.96%. 
 
 
The total number of 
establishments functioning outside the 
households without fixed structure is 
more in the urban sector (17.78%) 
than in rural sector (15.04%). 	
41.73% 	
21.33% 	
     	Percentage Growth in Establishments 
(2013) as compared to Fifth EC (2005)*

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Employment 
 
      	
The total number of persons 
employed in the state in all the 
establishments (excluding crop 
production, plantation, public 
administration, defense and 
compulsory social security service 
activities) is about 69.19 lakhs out of 
which 32.12 lakhs are hired workers 
and 37.07 lakhs are non-hired 
employees.	
  
 	
 	
 
 
 
 
 	
Total Number  of Persons 
Employed- 6919658

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Malappuram
	district 	has 	
the	 least 	share 	in 	the	 case	
of 	percentage 	of 	female 	
workers 	out 	of 	to ta l 	
workers, 	ie.27.69%. 		
 
 	
In national level, Kerala is 
ranked 7th in the percentage share of 
total number of persons employed*.  
 
 
Ernakulam district contribute 
the major chunk of work force in these 
establishments, ie.14.12% and the 
least is in Wayanad district 2.65%). 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Out of the total 69.2 lakh	
   	
workers in total establishments 
47.39% are in the rural sector and 
52.61% are in the urban sector. 	
 
    
The total workforce in the state 
consists of 60.81% male employees. 
Out of the total female employees in 
the state engaged in various economic 
activities, non-hired employees 
constitute the lion’s share of the 
workforce ie, 57.23%.   
  The percentage of hired 
workers to the total workers in the 
combined sector is highest in 
Ernakulam district ie., 55.63% and the 
least is in Idukki district, 33.91%. 	
*Source Provisional Results of Sixth 
Economic Census (All India Report) 
published by CSO. 	
 	
 	
 
 	
Percentage 	shar e 	of	 districts 	in 	the 	to ta l 	
number 	of	Persons 	Employed 	
 
 
Moreover the share of female 
workers in the total workforce in the 
co mbined sec to r is highes t in 
Thiruvananthapuram district, i.e 
48 .03 %.

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Wayanad is the only district 
with majority of the establishments, ie, 
96.04% functioning in the rural sector, 
closely followed by Idukki, ie.95.06%.  
Similarly, taking into account, the 
percentage of workers engaged in total 
establishments, in Wayanad district,  
94.43% of the workforce is found to 
be in the rural sector followed by 
Idu kki district   with 92.42 % in the 
same  sector.  	
 	
 	
 
 
On taking in to account, the 
percentage growth rate in employment 
compared to ‘Fifth EC 2005’, it is 
found that majority of the districts 
sho w a nega tive gro wth ra te  in  the 
rural areas whereas all the districts 
have a positive growth rate in the 
urban sector. 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 	
 	
*Source Provisional Results of Sixth 
Economic Census (All India Report) 
published by CSO. 	
Top five  Districts  
District  Number 
Ernakulam 	 977138	
Thiruvananthapuram 		923829
Malappuram 	 623118	
Thrissur		603970
Kollam 	 522192	
In the case of per cent age 
share of female workers out 
of total workers, Kerala is 
placed in the 3rd position in 
the national level.*

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Percentage Growth in Establishment (2013) as compared to 
 Fifth EC (2005)* 	
 
 	
 	
 kerala  	 
21.33     	
    India
   41 .73

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Total Number of Handicrafts /Handloom                
Establishments – 31715   	
Percentage Growth in Employment (2013) as compared to Fifth EC 
(2005)* 	
   	
Total Number of Establishments 
inside House Hold- 1483771

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Percentage distribution of total number of persons employed by 
Hired/Non Hired and Sex 
                            
 	
            	 
 
 	
 	
Rural 	Urban 	
INDIA 	
KERALA 	
Combined

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  Percentage of Female Workers in total number of workers  
 
 	
                   	     	 	
 
 
 
Percentage Growth in Employments (2013) as compared to Fifth  EC (2005)* 	
KERALA 
26.49% 	
INDIA 
34.35% 	
25.56% 	39.19%

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Percentage of female workers out of total number of workers 	
 	 	
Percentage of Establishments located inside household being higher than 
the state average 
 
 	
 	
State average - 43.96%

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Percentage of Establishments located outside household without fixed 
structure being higher than the state average 	
 	
 	
Growth Rate (%) over Fifth Economic Census2005 	
            	  
   	
State Average – 16.3%

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Table 1 
Total Number of Establishments and Number of Workers (Rural)* 	
	
 
Sl. 
No . 	
Number of Establishments Total 
Number  of  
Handi- craft 
Establi- 
shments Number of Persons Employed 
Total 
number 
of person  
Employed	
District  Name	
 	
Ou tside 
the HH*   With 
Fixed 
Structure	
 	
Ou tside 
the HH 
Without  Fixed 
Structur
e	
 	
In side th e HH	
 
Total
 	
Hired Non  Hired 	
Male Female Total  Male  Female  Total 	
1 2  3  4  5  6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 	1 Kasargod  23885 11725 53917 89527  328 25109 15177 40286 39670 52177 91847 132133 	2 Kannur  31667 19156 59456 110279  572 36289 18201 54490 64135 56082 120217 174707 	3 Wayan ad  28925 11805 49545 90275  476 36769 19701 56470 64173 52584 116757 173227 	4 Kozh ikode  32135  7178 37895 77208  360 39752 17430 57182 46149 32495 78644 135826 	5 Malappura
m 
76060  36382  75468 187910  785 100450 34342 134792 131114  61343 192457  327249 	6 Palakkad  61622  34280  83064 178966  2090  74937 40371 115308 129525  74053 203578  318886 	7 Th rissu r  32039 17527 38106 87672 1656 40843 28181 69024 57465 34079 91544 160568 	8 Ernaku lam  41005 22663 63567 127235 1526 61029 39577 100606 78923 74583 153506 254112 	9 Idukki  42592 21888 80613 145093  262 51703 27656 79359 92911 76949 169860 249219 	10 Kottayam  53329 25155 79386 157870 3178 58432 38305 96737 89806 97203 187009 283746 	11 Alappu zh a  28730 13362 46382 88474  395 41538 32604 74142 53166 47223 100389 174531 	12 Pathanam-
th itt a  38993 10624 58861 108478  374 44312 29484 73796 62679 54142 116821 190617 	13 Kollam  54939 13928 75680 144547  302 61003 72590 133593 81579 71769 153348 286941 	14 Th iruvanan-
th apuram 
61813  27338 132984 222135  3770  70033 51655 121688 124967 170773 295740  417428 	
Kera la  607734  273011  934924 1815669  16074  742199 465274 1207473 1116262  955455 2071717  3279190 	In d ia  1117537
6 7332725 
1651463
4 35022735 1293756 16471799 6508332 22980131 29336147 13972717 43308864  66288995 	
*Excluding crop production, plantation, public administration, defence &compulsory social security services activities

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Table 2
	
Total Number of Establishments and Number of Workers (Urban)*  		
 	Sl. 
No	
. 	
Number of Establishments Total 
Num ber  of 
Handi-
craft 
Establi- 
sh men ts Number of Persons Employed 
Total 
number 
of person  
Employed	
District  Name	
 	
Outside 
the HH*  With 
Fixed 
Structu re	
 	
Outside 
the HH 
Without  Fixed 
Structu re Ins ide 
the HH	
 
Total
 	
Hired Non  Hired 	
Male Female T otal  Male  Fem ale  Total 	
1 2  3  4 5  6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 	1 Kasargod 
22899 10146 21083 54128 258 32633 17122  49755 31469 22929 54398 104153 	
2 Kannu r 
73025  30588 40164 143777 1636 106217 60602 166819 96049 47618 143667 310486 	
3 Wayan ad 
2399 505 820 3724 9 4433 2242 6675 2694 857 3551 10226 	
4 Kozh ikode 
89530  18928 57585 166043 1841 142004 66703 208707 111339 54204 165543 374250 	
5 Malappu ram 
72425  27023 48104 147552 435 118471 38512 156983 100544 38342 138886 295869 	
6 P alakkad 
33472 14657 19511 67640 588 58882 27006  85888 51965 16800 68765 154653 	
7 Thrissur 
93184  37046 69875 200105 5146 147343 91748 239091 139274 65037 204311 443402 	
8 E rnaku lam 
127816 61858 71982 261656 2207 301554 141400 442954 185181 94891 280072 723026 	
9 Idukki 
4095 1891 1558 7544 15 7817 4264 12081 6240 2118 8358 20439 	
10 Kottayam 
34336 13786 21342 69464 338 61217 32280  93497 47415 28329 75744 169241 	
11 Alappuzha 
45315  18422 50711 114448 602 71346 47748 119094 73936 54004 127940 247034 	
12 Pathanam-
thitta 
9503 1501 4990 15994 71 19185 12233 31418 9391 5228 14619 46037 	
13 Kollam 
49895  14715 26475 91085 323 76054 62867 138921 61970 34360 96330 235251 	
14 Thiruvan an - 
th apu ram  
75808  26283 114647 216738 2172 163208 89806 253014 121890 131497 253387 506401 	
Kera la  733702  277349  548847 1559898  15641 1310364 694533  2004897 1039357  596214 1635571  3640468 	In dia  12872104  4645947  5929310 23447361  898815 28107054 7263079 35370133 21148428  4900520 26048948  61419081 
		*Excluding crop production, plantation, public administration, defence &compulsory social security services activities

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Table 3  
Total Number of Establishments And Number of Workers (combined)  	
	
 
Sl. 
No.  Number of Establishments  Total 
Number of  Handicraft  
Establishments 	
District Name  Outside the HH* 
With Fixed Structure  Outside the HH 
Without Fixed 
Structure  Insid e the HH  Total 	
1 2  3  4  5  6  7 	1 Kasargod 
46784  21871  75000  143655  586 	2 Kannur 104692 49744 99620 254056 2208 	3 Wa yanad  31324 12310 50365 93999 485 	4 Kozhikode 
121665  26106  95480  243251  2201 	5 Malappuram  148485 63405 123572 335462 1220 	6 Palakkad 
95094  48937  102575  246606  2678 	7 Thrissur 125223 54573 107981 287777 6802 	8 Ernakulam 
168821  84521  135549  388891  3733 	9 Idukki  46687  23779  82171  152637  277 	10 Kottayam  87665 38941 100728 227334 3516 	11 Alappuzha 74045 31784 97093 202922 997 	12 Pathanamthitta 
48496 12125  63851  124472  445 	13 Kollam 104834 28643 102155 235632 625 	14 Thiruvananthapuram 137621 53621 247631 438873 5942 	
Kerala 1341436 550360 
1483771 3375567  31715 	India  24047480 11978672 22443944 58470096 2192571 
		*Excluding crop production, plantation, public administration, defence &compulsory social security services activities

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Table 3 (combined) (Contd….) 	
	
 
 	
Sl. 
No	
.   	
Number of Persons Employed 
Tota l N umber  of 
Persons Employed	
District Name
 
Hired Non  Hired 	
M ale Female Total Male Female Total 	
1 2  8  9  10  11 12  13  14 	1 Kasargod 57742  32299  90041  71139  75106  146245  236286 	2 Kannu r 142506  78803  221309  160184  103700  263884  485193 	3 Wayan ad  41202  21943  63145  66867  53441  120308  183453 	4 Kozh ikode 181756  84133  265889  157488  86699  244187  510076 	5 Malappu ram 218921  72854  291775  231658  99685  331343  623118 	6 Palakkad 
133819 67377 201196 181490  90853 272343  473539 	7 Thrissur 188186 119929  308115  196739  99116  295855  603970 	8 Ernakulam 362583 180977  543560  264104  169474  433578  977138 	9 Idukki  59520  31920  91440  99151  79067  178218  269658 	10 Kottayam 119649  70585  190234  137221  125532  262753  452987 	11 Alappuzha 112884  80352  193236  127102  101227  228329  421565 	12 P ath an amth itta  63497  41717  105214  72070  59370  131440  236654 	13 Kollam 137057  135457  272514  143549  106129  249678  522192 	14 Th iru van an th apu ram 
233241 141461  374702  246857  302270  549127  923829 	
Kerala 2052563 1159807  3212370  2155619  1551669  3707288  6919658 	Ind ia  44578853 13771411  58350264  50484575  18873237  69357812  127708076 	
*Excluding crop production, plantation, public administration, defence &compulsory social security services activities

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Table 4
	
District wise Percentage of Establishments and Percentage growth in total number of Establishments in  2013(6th EC) as compared to 2005(fifth EC) 		
Sl. 
No.  District Name  Establishments 
% share of 
districts in total  number of 
establishments  % Growth in total number of establishments 
as compared to Fifth E C(2005)* 	
Rural Urban Total  Rural Urban Total 	
1 2 3 4 5  6  7 8 9 	1 Kasargod 
62.32  37.68 100.00  4.26  6.14  144.04  34.86 	2 Kannur 43.41 56.59 100.00  7.53 -12.05 88.44 25.97 	3 Wayanad 
96.04  3.96 100.00  2.78  6.70  17.62  7.10 	4 Kozhikode 31.74  68.26 100.00  7.21  -37.99  100.87  17.42 	5 Malappuram 56.02 43.98 100.00  9.94 -1.44 687.03 60.19 	6 Palakkad 72.57 27.43 100.00  7.31 -1.02 91.21 14.08 	7 Thrissur 
30.47  69.53 100.00  8.53  -48.05  190.99  21.15 	8 Ernakulam  32.72 67.28 100.00 11.52 -21.26 94.11 31.21 	9 Idukki 95.06 4.94 100.00 4.52 21.33 21.87 21.36 	10 Kottayam 
69.44  30.56 100.00  6.73  -11.52  88.49  5.60 	11 Alappuzha 43.60 56.40 100.00  6.01 -49.62 35.68 -21.94 	12 Pathanamthitta 
87.15  12.85 100.00  3.69  23.74  -8.54  18.37 	13 Kollam 61.34  38.66 100.00  6.98  -36.63  123.55  -12.36 	14 Thiruvananthapuram 50.61 49.39 100.00 13.00 25.13 223.65 79.50 	
K erala 53.79 46.21 100.00 100.00 -13.02 124.58 21.33 	India 59.90 40.10 100.00 **5.77 39.28 
45.57 41.73 	
Excluding crop production, plantation, public administration, defence &compulsory social security services activities
 	
** Duration of field  work  of Fifth Economic census is June - September 2005 & Sixth Economic census is May -June 2013

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Table 5
	
District wise Percentage of persons employed and Percentage growth in total  number of Employments  in 2013(6th EC) as compared to 2005(fifth EC)  	
Sl. 
No.  District Name 
Persons Employed
 
% sh are  of d is tric ts  
in total number of 
P erson s Em ployed	
 	
% Growth in Employmen t(2013) as compared to  Fifth EC(2005)*	
 	
Rural Urban Total  Rural Urban Total 	
1 2  3 4 5 6 7 8 9 	1 Kasargod 
55.92 44.08 100  3.41  -5.29 98.90 23.14 	2 Kannur 36.01 63.99 100  7.01  -16.16 78.05 26.76 	3 Wayanad 94.43 5.57 100  2.65  8.99 36.35 10.22 	4 Kozhikode 
26.63 73.37 100  7.37  -38.94 82.11 19.19 	5 Malappuram 52.52 47.48 100  9.01  -5.27 530.00 58.78 	6 Palakkad 
67.34 32.66 100  6.84  3.76  89.78 21.79 	7 Thrissur 26.59 73.41 100  8.73  -47.39 176.40 29.71 	8 Ernakulam 26.01 73.99 100  14.12  -10.38 96.17 49.84 	9 Idukki 
92.42 7.58 100  3.90  26.55 39.65 27.45 	10 Kottayam  62.64 37.36 100  6.55  -8.36 83.99 12.79 	11 Alappuzha 41.40 58.60 100  6.09  -42.87 50.21 -10.30 	12 Pathanamthitta 80.55 19.45 100  3.42  21.44 19.52 21.06 	13 Kollam 
54.95 45.05 100 7.55 -40.80 152.46 -9.63	14 Thiruvananthapuram 45.18 54.82 100  13.35  17.42 166.01 69.24 	
Kerala 47.39  52.61 100 100.00 -13.25  115.37 26.49 	India  51.91  48.09  100           **5.42  31.59  37.46  34.35 	
Excluding crop production, plantation, public administration, defence &compulsory social security services activities
 	
**  % share o f Kerala in total numb er of p ersons emp loyed in India

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District wise Percentage of Establishments by type of structure  	
	
Sl  
No  Districts  Rural Urban Total 	
Outside 
the HH 
With Fixed  Structure  Outside 
the HH 
Without 
Fixed 
Structure  In sid e the 
HH  Outside 
the HH 
With  Fixed  Structure  Outside 
the HH 
Without 
Fixed 
Structure  Inside the 
HH  Outside 
the HH  
With Fix ed  Structure  Outside 
the HH 
Without 
Fixed 
Structure  Insid e the 
HH 	
1  2  3  4 5 6  7 8 9 10 11 	1 Kasargod  26.68 13.10 60.22 42.31 18.74 38.95 32.57 15.22 52.21 	2 Kannur  28.72 17.37 53.91 50.79 21.27 27.93 41.21 19.58 39.21 	3 Wa yanad  32.04 13.08 54.88 64.42 13.56 22.02 33.32 13.10 53.58 	4 Kozhikode  41.62  9.30 49.08 53.92 11.40 34.68 50.02 10.73 39.25 	5 Malappuram  40.48 19.36 40.16 49.08 18.31 32.60 44.26 18.90 36.84 	6 Palakkad  34.43 19.15 46.41 49.49 21.67 28.85 38.56 19.84 41.59 	7 Thrissur  36.54 19.99 43.46 46.57 18.51 34.92 43.51 18.96 37.52 	8 Ernakulam  32.23 17.81 49.96 48.85 23.64 27.51 43.41 21.73 34.86 	9 Idukki  29.35 15.09 55.56 54.28 25.07 20.65 30.59 15.58 53.83 	10 Kottayam  33.78 15.93 50.29 49.43 19.85 30.72 38.56 17.13 44.31 	11 Alappuzha  32.47 15.10 52.42 39.59 16.10 44.31 36.49 15.66 47.85 	12 Pathanamthitta  35.95  9.79 54.26 59.42  9.38 31.20 38.96  9.74 51.30 	13 Kollam  38.01  9.64 52.36 54.78 16.16 29.07 44.49 12.16 43.35 	14 Thiruvananthapuram 27.83 12.31 59.87 34.98 12.13 52.90 31.36 12.22 56.42 	
Total  33.47 15.04 51.49 47.04 17.78 35.18 39.74 16.30 43.96 	All India  31.91 20.94 47.15 54.90 19.81 25.29 41.13 20.49 38.39 	
Excluding crop production, plantation, public administration, defence &compulsory social security services activities

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Table 7
	
Number of Handicrafts and Handloom Establishments and Their Percentage Distribution in state  		
Sl 
No	 
Districts
 	
Number of Handicrafts and Han dloom Establishmen ts	
Rural Urban  Total 	
Num ber  Percentage 
Distribution  Number 
Percentage 
Distribution  Number 
Percentage 
Distribution 	
1 2 
3 4 5 6 7 8 	
1 Kasargod  328 2.04  258 1.65  586 1.85 	2 Kannur 572  3.56  1636  10.46  2208  6.96 	3 Wayanad 476 2.96  9 0.06  485 1.53 	4 Kozhikode 360  2.24  1841  11.77  2201  6.94 	5 Malappuram  785 4.88  435 2.78 1220 3.85 	6 Palakkad 2090 13.00  588 3.76 2678 8.44 	7 Thrissur 1656 10.30  5146 32.90  6802 21.45 	8 Ernakulam  1526  9.49  2207 14.11  3733 11.77 	9 Idukki  262 1.63  15 0.10  277 0.87 	10 Kottayam 3178  19.77  338  2.16  3516  11.09 	11 Alappuzha  395 2.46  602 3.85  997 3.14 	12 Pathanamthitta  374 2.33  71 0.45  445 1.40 	13 Kollam  302 1.88  323 2.07  625 1.97 	14 Thiruvananthapuram  3770 23.45  2172 13.89  5942 18.74 	
Total 16074 100.00  15641 100.00  31715 100.00 	All India  1293756 *1.24 898815 *1.74 2192571 *1.45 	
Excluding crop production, plantation, public administration, defence &compulsory social security services activities
 	
 
* % share of kerala in India

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Table 8
	
	
Percentage of Hired Workers and Female Workers   		
Sl 
No  Districts  Percentage of hired workers out of total workers  Percentage of Female workers out of total workers 	
Rural  Urban Combined  Rural  Urban Combined 	
1 2  3 4 5  6 7 8 	1 Kasargod  30.49 47.77 38.11  50.97 38.45 45.46 	2 Kannur 
31.19 53.73 45.61  42.52 34.86 37.61 	3 Wa yanad  32.60 65.27 34.42  41.73 30.31 41.09 	4 Kozhikode  42.10 55.77 52.13  36.76 32.31 33.49 	5 Malappuram  41.19 53.06 46.82  29.24 25.98 27.69 	6 Palakkad  36.16 55.54 42.49  35.88 28.33 33.41 	7 Thrissur 42.99 53.92 51.01  38.77 35.36 36.27 	8 Ernakulam  39.59 61.26 55.63  44.93 32.68 35.87 	9 Idukki  31.84 59.11 33.91  41.97 31.22 41.16 	10 Kottayam  34.09 55.24 42.00  47.76 35.81 43.29 	11 Alappuzha  42.48 48.21 45.84  45.74 41.19 43.07 	12 Pathanamthitta  38.71 68.25 44.46  43.87 37.93 42.72 	13 Kollam  46.56 59.05 52.19  50.31 41.33 46.26 	14 Thiruvananthapuram  29.15 49.96 40.56  53.29 43.70 48.03 	
Total  36.82 55.07 46.42  43.33 35.46 39.19 	All India  34.67 57.59 45.69  30.90 19.80 25.56

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Table 9  	
Growth of Enterprises over the years and Percentage of increase in the number of establishments 
		
Location  Number of Enterprises
  % increase in Enterprises 	
1980  1990 1998 2005 2013*  1980-90 1990-98 1998-05 2005-13**	
Rural 658834 825286 1240685 2101075 1815669 25.26 50.33 69.35 -13.02 	Urban 213063 396982 323986 702753 1559898 86.32  -18.39  116.91  124.58 	Combined871897 1222268 1564671 2803828 3375567  40.18  28.01  79.2  21.33 	Excluding crop production, plantation, public administration, defence &compulsory social security services activities

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Table 10  	
Growth of Employment over the years and Percentage of increase in the number of employment  		
Location Number of  Employment  % increase in Employment 	
1980 1990 1998 2005 2013*
 1980-90 1990-98 1998-05 2005-13** 	
Rural 1602839 1882721 2760059 3877364 3279190  17.46  46.6  40.48  -13.25 	Urban  848694 1400499 1089050 1855572 3640468  65.02  -22.24  70.38  115.37 	Combined 2451533 3283220 3849109 5732936 6919658  33.93  17.23  48.94  26.49 	 
Excluding crop production, plantation, public administration, defence &compulsory social security services activities	
 	
		
 
Provisional	figures

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CONCEPTS & DEFINITIONS OF IMPORTANT TERMS 	
 
 
The Concepts & Definitions of some of the important terms used in the Sixth 
Economic Census are given below. 	
 	
Establishment    
 	
An establishment is a unit or an economic entity situated in a single location in 
which predominantly one kind of economic activity is carried out such that at least a 
part of the goods and / or services produced by the unit is sold. 	
 
Agricultural Establishment  
 	
An agricultural establishment for the purpose of this Census is one engaged 
in production of agricultural goods (other than crop production & plantation 
by the farmers or a group of farmers or any other agency), agricultural 
services, hunting, trapping and game propagation, livestock production, 
forestry and logging as well as fishing and aqua culture where at least some 
part of the production or services is sold out. 	
 
Non-Agricultural Establishment 
 	
Establishments engaged in activities other than agricultural activities are 
termed as non-agricultural establishment. 	
 
House hold  
 	
A house hold is a group of person usually living together and taking their 
meals from a common kitchen. It includes temporary stay-aways (those 
whose total period of absence from house hold is expected to be less than six 
months), but excludes temporary visitors and guests (with expected total stay 
of less than six months).  A group of persons, who are unrelated to each 
other, live in a census house but do not take their meals from a common 
kitchen would not constitute an institutional household.

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Census-House  	
 
A Census house is a building or a part of a building having a separate main 
entrance from the road or common courtyard or staircase, etc., used, or 
recognized as a separate unit.  It may be used for residential, commercial or 
for both purposes. 
 	
Enumeration Block 	
 
The ultimate area unit of enumeration in the Sixth EC is Population Census 
(2011) Enumeration Block (EB).  An EB broadly covers about 120 
households or a population of nearly 
600 or so. 
 	
Handicraft/Handloom Activity 	
 
Handicraft describes a craft or occupation requiring skilled use of hands.  
Handicrafts are items made by hand, often using simple tools.  These items 
can be functional, artistic and/ or traditional in nature. 
 	
Nature of Operation 	
 
If the entrepreneurial activity is carried on or likely to be carried on 
throughout the year more or less regularly, it is treated as perennial activity.  
If the activity of the establishment is confined to a particular season, i.e. fixed 
months of a year, the same is called the seasonal activity.  The economic 
activity of the establishment which is neither perennial nor seasonal is termed 
as casual. 
 	
Worker (Person Employed) 	
 
All persons (including children under 15 years of age) working on the last 
working day prior to the date of fieldwork in the establishment, either as 
owners, members of the household, co-owner or partner or family members 
helping the owner in running the establishment including other persons 
engaged by the establishment, whether hired or not, besides regular and 
salaried employees, casual/daily wage labourers are considered as workers 
for the establishment.

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ANNEXURE - I 	
 
COMMITTEES AND WORKING GROUPS  	
AT CENTRAL LEVEL 	
 
 
 	
A Standing Committee was constituted under the Chairmanship of Chief 
Statistician of India & Secretary, MOSPI.    
The Members of the Committee for the Sixth Economic Census inter-alia 
include Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India, Adviser (Financial 
Resources) and Adviser (Perspective Planning) both from the Planning Commission,  
Chief Economic Adviser, Ministry of Finance and other officers of the level of 
Additional Secretary/Joint Secretary of the Central Ministries/Departments 
concerned like Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Commerce and 
Industry, Women & Child Development, Panchayathi Raj, Rural Development and 
Labour &  Employment as well as DG (CSO), DG & CEO ( NSSO), Additional 
DGs heading National Accounts Division, Social Statistics Division, Training 
Division, Field Operations Division, Survey Design and Research Division, Data 
Processing Division, DDG (Computer Centre) and DDG (CSO IS Wing). Six State 
Governments namely Jammu & Kashmir, Assam, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Uttar 
Predesh and West Bengal were represented by their respective Directors General/ 
Directors from Directorate of Economics & Statistics. The Standing Committee also 
included other experts from esteemed educational institutions in the field of 
Statistics and Economics and Ex-DGs of CSO.

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ANNEXURE - II 	
State Level Steering Committee 	
 
1 	Chief Secretary & E	x-officio Chief Economic    	 	
Census Commissioner	 	
- 	Chairman 	
2 	Director General of Police 	(Law & Order	) 	- 	Member 	
3 	Principal Secretary,  
Planning & Economic Affairs Department	 	
- 	” 	
4 	Additional Chief Secretary. LSGD	 	- 	” 	
5 	Secretary. LSGD 	- 	” 	
6 	Principal Chief Conservator of Forests	 	- 	” 	
7 	Director of Census Operations	 	- 	” 	
8 	Director of Printin	g 	- 	” 	
9 	Director of Public Relations	 	- 	” 	
10 	Director of Employment and Trainin	g 	- 	” 	
11 	Director of Doordarshan	 	- 	” 	
12 	Director of All India Radio	 	- 	” 	
13 	Director of Panchayats 	- 	” 	
14 	Director of Urban Affairs	 	- 	” 	
15 	Representative of MOSPI	 	 	” 	
16 	Deputy Director General, NSSO, FOD	 	- 	” 	
17 	Director of Economic & Statistics	 	- 	Member Secretar	y 	
 	
District Level Monitoring Committee 
 	
1  District Collector & Ex-officio District Economic 
Census Commissioner	
 	
- 	Chairman 	
2 Superintendent of Police 	 	- 	Member 	
3 District employment Officer	 	- 	” 	
4 Divisional Forest Officer  -	 	” 	
5  Deputy Director, Panchayat Department	 	- 	” 	
6  Secretaries of Municipalities & Corporations	 	- 	” 	
7  District Information Officer	 	- 	” 	
8 Superintendent of NSSO	 	- 	” 	
9  Representative of Industries Department	 	- 	” 	
10  District Planning Officer  -	 	” 	
11 Pro	ject Officer, ITDP -	 	” 	
12 Deputy Director  
Department of Economic & Statistics  -	 	Member 
Secretary

Form  Number       2802 3739	
ENGLISH	
A
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1Census house/Structure 
Number
2Use of Census house/structure Code
Commercial-1, Residential-2, Residential cum 
commercial-3, Others including vacant, 
Demolished, Inaccessable-9
3
Name of the Head of 
the household/
Name of establishment/ Owner of 
establishment
4Members in HH
5Only wage earners/
salaried in HH
6Outside HH with
ﬁxed structure
7Outside HH without
ﬁxed structure
8Inside HH
9Total of col.7 & 8
10Serial number to establishments  
mentioned in col. 9
11
Description of  major 
activity of establishment	
Number of 
establishments  owned by 
HH members
Number of 
usual Residents  for each 
household(HH)
Details of Establishments listed	
12Broad activity code (In two digit)
13NIC 3 digit code 
To be ﬁlled by District Statistical ofﬁce
14
15Ownership code (legal form) 
17
16Sex   
Male-1, Female-2, Others-9 
18Religion (code) 
19Nature of operation 
Perennial-1, Seasonal-2, Casual-9
20Major source of Finance	
for code 2 in col. 15
(details of owner) No. of persons employed on last working day in relation to day of visit	
21
Male
23
Male
22
Female
24
Female	
Hired
Not-hired	
25
Total (hired
+not hir	
 ed)	(col. 21+col. 22+
col. 23+col. 24) 	
26Serial number to establishments 
with 8 or more workers as per col. 25	
Total of 
Code 1 in col. 14 
Total No. of Establishments outside HH 
without ﬁxed structure (in col. 7) 
Total No. of Establishments 
inside HH (in col. 8)	
I
H
G
F
Totals 
(in col. 21, 22, 23, 24, 
& 25)
E
J
D
C
B
A	
Social group (code) 	
Broad activity12
SC ....................................... 1 
ST ........................................ 2 
OBC ..................................... 3
Others ................................. 917Social group
Hindu .................................. 1
Islam ................................... 2
Christian	

.............................. 3
Sikh ..................................... 4
Buddhist .............................. 5
Zoroastrian (Parsi) ............... 6
Jain ..................................... 7
Others ................................. 9 
Signature of the Enumerator Name of the Enumerator
Enumerator
number	
MM
DD
YY	
Signature of the Supervisor Name of the Supervisor
Supervisor
number	
MM
DD
YY	
Particulars of Field Ofﬁcers 
Checked and found correct.	
Do not fold the schedule.  
Use black/blue ink ball point pen, keep schedules on the 
board provided for this purpose.
Write in the centre of the boxes without touching the 
boundaries. 
Avoid over writing & in case of corrections, 
cross the line and use the fresh line. Use only arabic numerals as indicated here.	Instructions for ﬁeld ofﬁcers	
Start 
Here
State/UT District
Tahsil/Taluka/
P.S./Dev. Block 
Circle/Mandal
Ward Code No. 
(only for Town)Enumeration 
Block No.
Identiﬁcation
Particulars
Town/
Village	
Ownership 15Govt /PSU ...................................
1  
Private :
Proprietary ................................. 2 
Partnership ................................. 3
Company .................................... 4
Self Help Group .......................... 5
Co-operative .............................. 6
Non Proﬁt Institution ................. 7
Others ........................................ 9 Self ﬁnance .............................
1
Financial Assistance  from 
Govt. sources .......................... 2
Borrowing from ﬁnancial 
institutions .............................. 3
Borrowing from Non 
Institutions/Money 
Lenders ................................... 4
Loan from Self Help Group ...... 5
Donations/Transfers from 
Other agencies ........................ 9	
Major source of ﬁnance20	
18
Religion	
Sixth Economic Census 2012  House and Establishment Listing Schedule   6A	
Professional, scientiﬁc & technical 
activities (including advertisement, 
market research and veterinary 
activities) ....................................18
Administrative and support service 
activities (including travel agency, 
employment activities, security, 
services, activities of 
call centers and organisation of 
conventions and trade shows) .... 19 
Education .................................... 20 
Human health & social work 
activities (including residential and 
non residential care centres) ....... 21
Arts, entertainment, sports & 
amusement and recreation 
(excluding illegal gambling and 
betting activities) ........................ 22  
Activities relating to agriculture 
other than crop production & 
Plantation ...................................
01 
Livestock ..................................... 02
Forestry and logging ................... 03  
Fishing and aqua culture ............. 04 
Mining and quarrying ................. 05 
Manufacturing (including repair 
& installation of machinery & 
equipment).................................. 06  
Electricity, gas, steam and 
air conditioning supply ................ 07 
Water supply, sewerage, waste 
management and remediation 
activities ...................................... 08 
Construction ............................... 09 Whole sale trade, retail trade & 
repair of motor vehicles & motor 
cycles ..........................................
10
Whole sale trade (not covered in 
item 10 above) ............................ 11
Retail trade (not covered in 
item 10 above) ............................ 12 
Transportation and storage
(including postal and courier 
activities) .................................... 13  
Accommodation and Food 
service activities .......................... 14
Information & communication 
(including computer 
programming, consultancy and 
related services) .......................... 15 
Financial & insurance activities ... 16
Real estate activities ................... 17 Other service activities not else 
where classiﬁed (including 
membership organisation, 
repair of computers and personal 
household goods) .......................
23         
All activities outside the coverage 
of Sixth EC  ................................. 99                                    	
Page No.	
Is it a handloom/handicraft 
activity ? (Yes=1, No=2)	
Total of Code 1 
in col. 2 	
Form Number
2802 3739

Form  Number       2802 3739	
ENGLISH	
B
SIDE
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when filled in
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1Census house/Structure 
Number
2Use of Census house/structure Code
Commercial-1, Residential-2, Residential cum 
commercial-3, Others including vacant, 
Demolished, Inaccessable-9
3
Name of the Head of 
the household/
Name of establishment/ Owner of 
establishment
4Members in HH
5Only wage earners/
salaried in HH
6Outside HH with
ﬁxed structure
7Outside HH without
ﬁxed structure
8Inside HH
9Total of col.7 & 8
10Serial number to establishments  
mentioned in col. 9
11
Description of  major 
activity of establishment	
Number of 
establishments  owned by 
HH members
Number of 
usual Residents  for each 
household(HH)
Details of Establishments listed	
12Broad activity code (In two digit)
13NIC 3 digit code 
To be ﬁlled by District Statistical ofﬁce
14
15Ownership code (legal form) 
17
16Sex   
Male-1, Female-2, Others-9 
18Religion (code) 
19Nature of operation 
Perennial-1, Seasonal-2, Casual-9
20Major source of Finance	
for code 2 in col. 15
(details of owner) No. of persons employed on last working day in relation to day of visit	
21
Male
23
Male
22
Female
24
Female	
Hired
Not-hired	
25
Total (hired
+not hir	
 ed)	(col. 21+col. 22+
col. 23+col. 24) 	
26Serial number to establishments 
with 8 or more workers as per col. 25	
Total of 
Code 1 in col. 14 
Total No. of Establishments outside HH 
without ﬁxed structure (in col. 7) 
Total No. of Establishments 
inside HH (in col. 8)	
I
H
G
F
Totals 
(in col. 21, 22, 23, 24, 
& 25)
E
J
D
C
B
A	
Social group (code) 	
Broad activity12
SC ....................................... 1 
ST ........................................ 2 
OBC ..................................... 3
Others ................................. 917Social group
Hindu .................................. 1
Islam ................................... 2
Christian	

.............................. 3
Sikh ..................................... 4
Buddhist .............................. 5
Zoroastrian (Parsi) ............... 6
Jain ..................................... 7
Others ................................. 9 
Signature of the Enumerator Name of the Enumerator
Enumerator
number	
MM
DD
YY	
Signature of the Supervisor Name of the Supervisor
Supervisor
number	
MM
DD
YY	
Particulars of Field Ofﬁcers 
Checked and found correct.	
Do not fold the schedule.  
Use black/blue ink ball point pen, keep schedules on the 
board provided for this purpose.
Write in the centre of the boxes without touching the 
boundaries. 
Avoid over writing & in case of corrections, 
cross the line and use the fresh line. Use only arabic numerals as indicated here.	Instructions for ﬁeld ofﬁcers	
Ownership 15Govt /PSU ................................... 1  
Private :
Proprietary ................................. 2 
Partnership ................................. 3
Company .................................... 4
Self Help Group .......................... 5
Co-operative .............................. 6
Non Proﬁt Institution ................. 7
Others ........................................ 9 Self ﬁnance .............................
1
Financial Assistance  from 
Govt. sources .......................... 2
Borrowing from ﬁnancial 
institutions .............................. 3
Borrowing from Non 
Institutions/Money 
Lenders ................................... 4
Loan from Self Help Group ...... 5
Donations/Transfers from 
Other agencies ........................ 9	
Major source of ﬁnance20	
18
Religion	
Sixth Economic Census 2012  House and Establishment Listing Schedule   6A	
Professional, scientiﬁc & technical 
activities (including advertisement, 
market research and veterinary 
activities) ....................................18
Administrative and support service 
activities (including travel agency, 
employment activities, security, 
services, activities of 
call centers and organisation of 
conventions and trade shows) .... 19 
Education .................................... 20 
Human health & social work 
activities (including residential and 
non residential care centres) ....... 21
Arts, entertainment, sports & 
amusement and recreation 
(excluding illegal gambling and 
betting activities) ........................ 22  
Activities relating to agriculture 
other than crop production & 
Plantation ...................................
01 
Livestock ..................................... 02
Forestry and logging ................... 03  
Fishing and aqua culture ............. 04 
Mining and quarrying ................. 05 
Manufacturing (including repair 
& installation of machinery & 
equipment).................................. 06  
Electricity, gas, steam and 
air conditioning supply ................ 07 
Water supply, sewerage, waste 
management and remediation 
activities ...................................... 08 
Construction ............................... 09 Whole sale trade, retail trade & 
repair of motor vehicles & motor 
cycles ..........................................
10
Whole sale trade (not covered in 
item 10 above) ............................ 11
Retail trade (not covered in 
item 10 above) ............................ 12 
Transportation and storage
(including postal and courier 
activities) .................................... 13  
Accommodation and Food 
service activities .......................... 14
Information & communication 
(including computer 
programming, consultancy and 
related services) .......................... 15 
Financial & insurance activities ... 16
Real estate activities ................... 17 Other service activities not else 
where classiﬁed (including 
membership organisation, 
repair of computers and personal 
household goods) .......................
23         
All activities outside the coverage 
of Sixth EC  ................................. 99                                    	
Page No.	
Is it a handloom/handicraft 
activity ? (Yes=1, No=2)	
Total of Code 1 
in col. 2 	
Form Number
2802 3739

ENGLISH
1	Page No.	
2	
Inside HH
(‘C’ of Col. 8 of 6A) Total of 
Handicraft /  Handloom
Establishments (‘D’ of Col.14 of 6A)
Outside HH
With ﬁxed Structure (Commercial 
Establishment)
(‘A’   of Col. 2 of 6A) Outside HH
Without ﬁxed  Structure
(‘B’ of Col. 7 of 6A)	
3
4
5
6	
Sum of col. 2, 3 & 4 of 6B	
No. of persons employed on last working day	
Hired	
7	Male 
(‘E’ of col. 21 of 6A)	
11	All 
(‘I’ of col. 25 of 6A)	
9	Male 
(‘G’ of col. 23 of 6A)	
8	Female 
(‘F’ of col. 22 of 6A)	
10	Female 
(‘H’ of col. 24 of 6A)
Not-Hired	
12	No. of 
establishments with 8 or 
more workers   
(‘J’ of col. 
26 of 6A)	
Start 
Here
State/UT District
Tahsil/Taluka/
P.S./Dev. Block 
Circle/Mandal
Identiﬁcation
Particulars
Ward Code No. 
(only for Town)Enumeration  
Block No.
Town/
Village	
Page No.
A
SIDE
Confidential 
when filled in
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Information on Establishments and workers 
to be copied from all pages  of Schedule 6A of Enumeration Block. .	
Total 
of all pages	
Form  Number       2802 3739
Sixth Economic Census 2012  Establishment Abstract    6B	
Instructions for ﬁeld ofﬁcers
Do not fold the schedule.  
Use black/blue ink ball point pen,	  keep schedules on the    
board provided for this purpose.
Write in the centre of the boxes without touching the               
boundaries. 
Avoid over writing & in case of corrections,
cross the line and use the fresh line. Use only arabic numerals as indicated here.	
Signature of the Supervisor  Name of the Supervisor
Supervisor   
number	
MM
DD
YY	
Particulars of Field Ofﬁcers 
Checked and found correct.	
Signature of the Enumerator  Name of the Enumerator
Enumerator
number	
MM
DD
YY	
2802 3739Form Number

ENGLISH
1	Page No.	
2	
Inside HH
(‘C’ of Col. 8 of 6A) Total of 
Handicraft /  Handloom
Establishments (‘D’ of Col.14 of 6A)
Outside HH
With ﬁxed Structure (Commercial 
Establishment)
(‘A’   of Col. 2 of 6A) Outside HH
Without ﬁxed  Structure
(‘B’ of Col. 7 of 6A)	
3
4
5
6	
Sum of col. 2, 3 & 4 of 6B	
No. of persons employed on last working day	
Hired	
7	Male 
(‘E’ of col. 21 of 6A)	
11	All 
(‘I’ of col. 25 of 6A)	
9	Male 
(‘G’ of col. 23 of 6A)	
8	Female 
(‘F’ of col. 22 of 6A)	
10	Female 
(‘H’ of col. 24 of 6A)
Not-Hired	
12	No. of 
establishments with 8 or 
more workers   
(‘J’ of col. 
26 of 6A)
Page No.	
B
SIDE
Confidential 
when filled in
����������	��
���	
����������	��
���		
Total number of Establishments	
Information on Establishments and workers 
to be copied from all pages  of Schedule 6A of Enumeration Block. .	
Total 
of all pages	
Form  Number       2802 3739
Sixth Economic Census 2012  Establishment Abstract    6B	
Instructions for ﬁeld ofﬁcers
Do not fold the schedule.  
Use black/blue ink ball point pen,	  keep schedules on the    
board provided for this purpose.
Write in the centre of the boxes without touching the               
boundaries. 
Avoid over writing & in case of corrections,
cross the line and use the fresh line. Use only arabic numerals as indicated here.	
Signature of the Supervisor  Name of the Supervisor
Supervisor   
number	
MM
DD
YY	
Particulars of Field Ofﬁcers 
Checked and found correct.	
Signature of the Enumerator  Name of the Enumerator
Enumerator
number	
MM
DD
YY	
2802 3739Form Number

State/UTConfidential 
when filled in	Identiﬁcation
Particulars	
Town/
Village
Tahsil/Taluka/P.S./
Dev. Block/Circle/
Mandal	Start Here	
District	
Ward Code No. 
(only for Town)	Page No.	Enumeration
Block No.	
�	
1	
Year of start of operation under 
current ownership	10	
Registration Information: 
Whether registered or not? (Yes-1, No-0)	14	
Checked and found correct.	
Signature of the Enumerator 
Signature of the Supervisor 
Name of the Enumerator
Name of the Supervisor
Enumerator
number Supervisor 
number	
MM	DD	YY	MM	DD	YY	
Particulars of Field Ofﬁcers	
12	Whether using power in production of goods and services? 
(Yes-1, No-0)	
13	Whether an exporting unit? (Yes-1, No-0)
Does a computer and/or internet facility exist in the 
establishment? (Both-1, Only computer-2, None-3)	11	
Instructions for Field Ofﬁcers
Use only arabic numerals as indicated here.
Do not fold the schedule.  
Use black/blue ink ball point pen, 
keep schedules on the board provided for this purpose.
Write in the centre of the boxes without touching the boundaries. 
Avoid over writing & in case of corrections, 
cross the line and use the fresh line. 
NIC-2008 3 digit code (col. no. 
13)	7
9	Total number of workers (col. no. 25)
Broad activity code (col. no. 12)	6
8	Ownership code (col. no. 15)
Description of major activity (col. no.  11)	5	
Note: Information for 5-9 is to be copied from relevant columns of  Schedule 6A	
15	If Answer of item 14 is Yes, then enter the registration information 
using codes (Yes-1, No-0)
15.1     Shops and Commercial Establishments Act  
15.2     Companies Act, 1956
15.4     Factories Act, 1948  
15.3     Central Excise/Sales Tax Act  
15.5     Societies Registration Act
15.6     Co-operative Societies Act
15.7     Directorate of Industries  
15.8     KVIC/KVIB/DC: Handloom/Handicrafts 
15.9     Registered with other agencies 	
Page No.of Schedule 6A  Sl. Number (To be copied from col. 
26 of Schedule 6A)	2	
A	SIDE	Sixth Economic Census 2012  Directory of Establishment Schedule   6C	
Information on Directory of Establishments	 (for establishments with 8 or more workers)	
Name
House No.
Lane Name
House No.
Lane	
4.2 English 4.1 Regional	
Name
Name
3.2 English
3.1 Regional Language	
4.3 Phone/
      Mobile
4.4 Fa x
4.6 PA N
4.7 TA N 4.5 E-mail
3.3 Phone/
      Mobile
3.4 Fa x
3.6 PA N
3.7 TA N 3.5 E-mail Name and Address of the Establishment along with PAN & TAN.
If it’s a Branch Ofﬁce, ﬁll in items 
3 & 4, else item 4 only.	
3	
Name
Name Pin Code
Pin Code
House No. House No.
Lane Lane
Pin Code
Pin Code
House No. House No.
Lane Lane
4.2 EnglishName and Address of the Main Ofﬁce along with PAN & TAN.
4
4.1 Regional Language	
Form Number
2802 3739	
ENGLISH	
Form Number
2802 3739

Confidential 
when filled in	Page No.	
�	
1	
Year of start of operation under 
current ownership	10	
Registration Information: 
Whether registered or not? (Yes-1, No-0)	14	
Checked and found correct.	
Signature of the Enumerator Signature of the Supervisor 
Name of the Enumerator
Name of the Supervisor
Enumerator
number Supervisor 
number	
MM	DD	YY	MM	DD	YY	
Particulars of Field Ofﬁcers	
12	Whether using power in production of goods and services? 
(Yes-1, No-0)	
13	Whether an exporting unit? (Yes-1, No-0)
Does a computer and/or internet facility exist in the 
establishment? (Both-1, Only computer-2, None-3)	11	
Instructions for Field Ofﬁcers
Use only arabic numerals as indicated here.
Do not fold the schedule.  
Use black/blue ink ball point pen, 
keep schedules on the board provided for this purpose.
Write in the centre of the boxes without touching the boundaries. 
Avoid over writing & in case of corrections, 
cross the line and use the fresh line. 
NIC-2008 3 digit code (col. no. 
13)	7
9	Total number of workers (col. no. 25)
Broad activity code (col. no. 12)	6
8	Ownership code (col. no. 15)
Description of major activity (col. no.  11)	5	
Note: Information for 5-9 is to be copied from relevant columns of  Schedule 6A	
15	If Answer of item 14 is Yes, then enter the registration information 
using codes (Yes-1, No-0)
15.1     Shops and Commercial Establishments Act   
15.2     Companies Act, 1956
15.4     Factories Act, 1948  
15.3     Central Excise/Sales Tax Act  
15.5     Societies Registration Act
15.6     Co-operative Societies Act
15.7     Directorate of Industries  
15.8     KVIC/KVIB/DC: Handloom/Handicrafts 
15.9     Registered with other agencies 	
Page No.of Schedule 6A  Sl. Number (To be copied from col. 
26 of Schedule 6A)	2	
B	SIDE	
Form Number
2802 3739	Sixth Economic Census 2012  Directory of Establishment Schedule   6C	
Information on Directory of Establishments	 (for establishments with 8 or more workers)	
Name
House No.
Lane Name
House No.
Lane	
4.2 English 4.1 Regional	
Name
Name
3.2 English
3.1 Regional Language	
4.6 PA N
4.7 TA N 4.5 E-mail
3.6 PA N
3.7 TA N 3.5 E-mail Name and Address of the Establishment along with PAN & TAN.
If it’s a Branch Ofﬁce, ﬁll in items 
3 & 4, else item 4 only.	
3	
Name
Name Pin Code
Pin Code
House No. House No.
Lane Lane
Pin Code
Pin Code
House No. House No.
Lane Lane
4.2 EnglishName and Address of the Main Ofﬁce along with PAN & TAN.
4
4.1 Regional Language
4.3 Phone/
      Mobile
4.4 Fa x
3.3 Phone/
      Mobile
3.4 Fa x	
ENGLISH	
Form Number
2802 3739

Pr ovi s i onal Rep or t on 6	th Ec on om i c C en su s  	
Department of Economics &  Statisti cs, Kerala 	47	
 	
 	
Region al Training  Programme for  Master Trainers of 6	th Econ omic  Cen sus being 
inaugurated by Sri K  Jose  Cyriac I  A S (Chief Secretary, Kerala)

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Department of Economics &  Statisti cs, Kerala 	48 	
 
 
  State level Training Programme  
at Hotel S.P Grand Days, Thiruvananthapuram

Pr ovi s i onal Rep or t on 6	th Ec on om i c C en su s  	
Department of Economics &  Statisti cs, Kerala 	49	
 
 	
 
 	
Training  Programme  for Supervisors h eld at  Kalpetta, Wayan ad 
Par tic i pa nts  of  t he t ra ini ng  prog ra mme fo r s upe r visors  of 6	
th  EC he l d a t Wa ya n a d

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Department of Economics &  Statisti cs, Kerala 	50
 	
 
 
  	
Tra i ni ng  P	rog ramme for e nume rato rs  held at  Areekode at Mala ppuram 
Tra ining Progra mme fo r enume rato rs he ld at  Nila mbur, Mala ppuram

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Department of Economics &  Statisti cs, Kerala 	51
 	
 	Offici als  c anv assin g  the  sc hed ule s 
from  Hon’ble Chief Mini ster S ri  Oommen Ch andi	
 	
 	
Partic ipants of Tra ining Prog ra mme  held at  Nila mbur, Mala ppura m

Pr ovi s i onal Rep or t on 6	th Ec on om i c C en su s  	
Department of Economics &  Statisti cs, Kerala 	52 
 
 	
 	Offici als c anv assin g  the  schedule s	 from  Sri K C  Joseph, 
Hon ’bl e Mi nister fo r Pl anni ng and Eco nomic Affai rs	
 	
 	Offici als c anv as sing  the  schedules  from  
Smt  A K Premajam,   Hon’ble  Mayor Kozhikkode

Pr ovi s i onal Rep or t on 6	th Ec on om i c C en su s  	
Department of Economics &  Statisti cs, Kerala 	53
 	
 
 
 	
Teams o f Enumerators and S uperviso rs coll ectin g detail s at Gavi  (a diffi cul t  and  remo te area   in  Path anamthi tta  Di strict)

Pr ovi s i onal Rep or t on 6	th Ec on om i c C en su s  	
Department of Economics &  Statisti cs, Kerala 	54	
 
Enum e rators  and  Superv iso rs a re on the  w ay to Id am alak ku di  
(a di ffi cul t and  remo te  area   in Iduk ki  Distric t)  
 	 	
Team of  En umerato rs and  Superviso rs  collecting details at Idamal akkudi   (a di ffi cul t and  remo te  area   in Iduk ki  Distric t)
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