India - Annual Survey of Industries: 1996-97

Start	End	Cycle
1997-07-01	1998-06-30	N/A

Statutory return submitted by factories as well as Face to faceASI Schedule has two parts: Part-I and Part-II. Part-I of ASI schedule aims to collect data on assets and liabilities, employment and labour cost, receipts, expenses, input items - indigenous and imported, products and by-products, distributive expenses etc. Part-II of ASI schedule aims to collect data on different aspects of labour statistics, namely, working days, mandays worked, absenteeism, labour turnover, man-hours worked, earning and social security benefits.

General Remarks regarding filling up of ASI schedules

The ASI work involves a number of stages. There are some general procedural aspects.
A separate return for each registered factory/electricity supply undertaking should be submitted as a rule. In following this, the aspects to be taken note of are:
Unless ownership has changed during the reference year, only one return is to be compiled for one factory.
If a part of a registered factory has been operated by the owner and another part by the occupier the total manufacturing activities of both the owner and the occupier should be duly recorded in one return.
If the factory as a whole has been rented out, the return for the factory may be filled from the occupier's point of view.
If for a factory, which is served with notice, is found that its products are meant for training of inmates and has no sale value and are produced as a product during training, the facts may be reported to the Statistics Authority and data need not be collected This is normally applicable to Training Centers and Jails which are registered as factories. Further, workshop in jails registered under factories Act should be canvassed for ASI only when the products of the workshop are meant for sale. In case the products are not sold but are incidental to training to the convicts engaged at the workshop, such a workshop is outside the purviews of ASI.

Submission of Joint Returns
Although, as per rules for such registered unit of inquiry a separate return should be furnished, in special circumstances, where the accounts of two or more registered units cannot be bifurcated factory wise a joint return may be accepted in a particular ASI if all the following conditions are fulfilled:
They are located in the same State.
They belong to the Census Scheme i.e. 100 or more workers only.
They belong to the same industry at the ultimate NIC code level.

There will be no joint return in sample sector. Also there will be no joint return with Census and Sample. In such cases appropriate apportions should be done to avoid any complications in estimation different parameters. In census sector also appropriate apportions should be made if some changes occur in joint returns.Annual Survey of Industries Questionnaire (in External Resources) is divided into different blocks:

BLOCK1/2/16 : RECORD TYPE 011 : IDENTIFICATION PARTICULARS (Filled by CSO and Industrial Units)
BLOCK 4 : RECORD TYPE 040 : SCHEDULE OF FIXED ASSETS
BLOCK 4A : RECORD TYPE 040 : DETAILS OF PLANT AND MACHINERY
BLOCK 5 : RECORD TYPE 051-054 : SCHEDULE OF WORKING CAPITAL AND LOANS
BLOCK 6 : RECORD TYPE 074 : WORKING DAYS AND SHIFTS
BLOCK 7 : RECORD TYPE 071-74 : EMPLOYMENT
BLOCK 8 : RECORD TYPE 081-82 : LABOUR COST (INCLUDING FOR CONTRACT LABOUR)
BLOCK 9 : RECORD TYPE 091 : FUELS, ELECTRICITY AND WATER CONSUMED (EXCLUDING INTERMEDIATE PRODUCTS)
BLOCK 10 : RECORD TYPE 101 : OTHER EXPENDITURE
BLOCK 11 : RECORD TYPE 111 : OTHER OUTPUT/RECEIPTS
BLOCK 12 : RECORD TYPE 121 : ELECTRICITY
BLOCK 13 : RECORD TYPE 131 : MATERIALS CONSUMED
BLOCK 13 A : RECORD TYPE 132 : INPUT ITEMS (indigenous items consumed)
BLOCK 13 B : RECORD TYPE 133 : INPUT ITEMS – directly imported items only (consumed)
BLOCK 14 : RECORD TYPE 141 : PRODUCTS AND BY-PRODUCTS (manufactured by the unit)
BLOCK 14 A : RECORD TYPE 142 : DISTRIBUTIVE EXPENSES

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation
NSSO(Field Operation Division)	NSSO(FOD)	Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation

NSSO under the Ministry of Statistics and PI, Government of India is responsible for supervision of data collection.