The second-quarter report of the Quarterly Employment Survey (QES) for the period July to September 2021 was recently released. The report states that the total employment in these nine sectors increased by around 2 lakhs compared to the first quarter. The share of women employees increased to 32.1%. Recently, the Ministry of Labour & Employment released the report of the second quarter of Quarterly Employment Survey (QES) for the period July to September 2021. This report is part of the ‘All-India Quarterly Establishment-based Employment Survey (AQEES)’. This is the second in the series, the first publication of which, covering the first quarter of 2021-22, was published in September 2021. The AQEES, conducted by the Labour Bureau, has been taken up to provide quarterly updates about employment vacancies, training, and other related parameters for selected nine (9) sectors of the non-farm economy over successive quarters. These nine (9) sectors, viz; Manufacturing, Construction, Trade, Transport, Education, Health, Accommodation & Restaurants, Information Technology (IT) & Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), and Financial Services, account for a substantial share of the total employment in the non-farm establishments in the country. 9 sectors accounting for 85% of total employment in units with 10 or more workers have been chosen The selected nine sectors account for around 85% of the total employment in units with 10 or more workers as per the 6 Economic Census. For this survey, around 12,000 units were targeted to be covered among those establishments employing 10 or more workers in the organised sector from these 9 sectors. These were selected as given in the Directory of Establishments in the Sixth Economic Census. Information has been collected from 11,503 units across the nine selected sectors all over the country in the second round of QES, as compared to 10,867 units covered in the first round. The sector-wise number of units covered in each quarter is in the following table. Among the sectors covered, the highest number of sample establishments were from the manufacturing sector, followed by Trade, Education, and Accommodation & Restaurants. A schedule which contains information on identification, establishment particulars, employment with the breakup of characteristics such as gender, type, and nature along with vacancy details, skill development program conducted, on-the-job training provided by establishments, etc. has been used for the survey. Detailed information on the methodology and limitations of the survey was published by Factly earlier. The type of ownership of most establishments was proprietary The percentage distribution of establishments by their type of ownership for the 9 selected sectors is demonstrated in the following chart. The share of Proprietary establishments accounted for the highest with 30.2%, followed by Private Limited Company accounting for 21.6% and Government/PSU with 20.3%. Non-profit institutions account for 11.7% while the share of other types of ownership such as partnerships, cooperatives, and others are below 10% each. Employment in the 9 sectors has gone up by 2 lakhs in the second quarter Data indicates that ‘Private Limited Companies’ were most prominent in the IT/BPOs sector with 83.1% of the establishments in the sector followed by the Construction sector with 47%. The estimated establishments which are ‘Private Limited Companies’ in the construction sector have come down from 56.3% in Q1 to 47% in Q2. Within Government/PSU ownership, the highest number of estimated units were reported in the financial services sector (40.6%), followed by Education (43%) as compared to 54.2% and 42.7% respectively in the previous quarter. The share of ‘non-profit institutions’ type of establishments was high for Education (31.5%) and Health (15.7%) sectors while there were no such establishments in Construction, IT/BPOs, and Transport sectors. This is understandable as mainstream education establishments still operate through non-profit societies in most places. 61.7% of the establishments in Accommodation & Restaurants, 50.8% in Trade, and 43.2% in Manufacturing had Proprietary ownership. The estimated total employment in the nine selected sectors in the second quarter of 2021-22 was 3.10 crore approximately, which is 2 lakhs more than the estimated employment in the first quarter which was 3.08 crore. Furthermore, the total employment for these 9 sectors was reported as 2.37 crore in the Sixth Economic Census (2013-14). The manufacturing sector alone accounted for 39.1% of the total employment estimated in the select 9 sectors, followed by Education with 22%.