Labour Bureau below the ministry of labour and employment on Thursday launched 5 pan-India surveys on – domestic workers, migrant workers, employment generated by pros and transport sector apart from all-India quarterly establishment-based employment survey. DPS Negi, director basic of the Labour Bureau shares with Surya Sarathi Ray the strategy of action:
How will these surveys support?
Apart from bridging the information gap, the surveys will play a big function at the national level by delivering a complete image of the employment situation in the nation and support in formulating a sound national employment policy.
By when the surveys are going to be completed?
These surveys will be completed inside 7-8 months from the date it begins in the field.
What will be the sample size of these surveys?
The sample size will be a minimum of 1.5 lakh for each and every survey. On an typical, for each and every survey 300-400 investigators will be deployed.
Since these surveys will be mainly response-based and not document-based, how would you convince respondents to share the most genuine facts?
Throughout the globe, such sample surveys are normally performed based on the responses of the sample. It all depends how the investigators place the query to the respondents.
Can laws be used to make it mandatory for respondents to share the most genuine facts?
Though government has created the law in 2008, that was by no means utilised due to the fact use of law will defeat the objective of the survey. In reality, the law must not have been created at all for generating all-India surveys. It’s due to the fact if you force somebody, they may well not respond at all and the complete objective will be defeated
While framing the inquiries have you kept the labour codes in thoughts?
Yes, to a big extent.
Will the surveys be technologies-driven?
Yes, these surveys will be heavily facts technologies-driven. IT will be utilised in the whole chain of information collection to report generation. The use of Artificial Intelligence and machine understanding with information storage in cloud computer systems along with geo tagging will improve the information collection, assimilation and processing. The AI-based speech-to-text facility will also decrease manual intervention. The use of IT will decrease the completion time of surveys by at least 30-40%.
What are the challenges?
Conducting 5 surveys at one go is itself a big challenge. Normally, such a big-scale survey requires 1.5-2 years to total the complete procedure.
How confident you are with respect to the questionnaires and the samplings in all these surveys?
A globe-identified statistician Prof S P Mukherjee and Prof Amitabh Kundu are chairman and the co-chair of the professional group formed by the govt and they have performed an outstanding job with the complete dedication of the officers, and employees of the Labour Bureau. They held 46 meetings. We are confident about the robustness of the questionnaires. For the initially time, surveys are becoming performed in important regional languages as nicely.