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India will soon begin work on the 2023-24 round of the Annual Survey on Unincorporated Sector Enterprises (ASUSE) even though the results of the previous surveys, dating back to four years, are yet to be released...
The aim of ASUSE, along with the Annual Survey of Service Sector Enterprises, is to fill the gap in national accounts reporting and present a better picture of the informal sector...
"The Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation (MoSPI) is conducting training camps across its field offices to start work on the next round of the survey for 2023-24," a person familiar with the development told ET...
"ASUSE will provide concrete data on the performance of the informal sector, which is currently not captured by the Annual Survey of Industries, and help in improving sub-national accounts reporting," the person cited above said..
A recent report by the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council said the ministry needs to focus on quality, and increasing quantity in government surveys would not address concerns on data quality..
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