FIFTH

ECONOMIC
CENSUS
2005

Fact Sheet

HIMACHAL
PRADESH

Central Statistical
Organisation
Ministry of Statistics and
Programme
Implementation
Government of India
The Central Statistical Organization in KEY RESULTS FOR HIMACHAL The provisional figures of Economic Census
collaboration with the Directorates of for all the States were released by the
Economics and Statistics of various States/UT PRADESH Government of India on June 12, 2006. The
Governments conducted the 5th Economic
data presently released are based on
Census throughout the country in 2005 with a CAGR*
actual processing of data using ICR
view to collect broad information for both Sl.No. Indicators EC-1998 EC-2005 during

organized sector and unorganized sector,

1998-2005
technology and thus there may be some
1.Establishments
and to prepare a frame of agricultural and difference with the figures earlier published
a)Rural 181,656 215,248 2.45
non-agricultural establishments, except crop 1.1
Number of
b)Urban 43,822 52,525 2.62
through quick manual tabulation using
Establishments
production and plantation according to 4- c)Combined 225,478 267,773 2.49 Establishment Abstract schedule of EC-
digit of NIC-2004, for taking up follow-up Number of a)Rural 10,650 11,759 1.43 2005.
Agricultural
census and surveys to collect detailed 1.2
Establishments b)Urban 498 255 -9.12
@
information on various parameters relating to c)Combined 11,148 12,014 1.07

the organized and unorganized sectors of the 1.3

Number of Non-
Agricultural
a)Rural 171,006 203,489 2.52
b)Urban 43,324 52,270 2.72
economy. Establishments
c)Combined 214,330 255,759 2.56
2.Employment
While the All India report is being published a)Rural 387,401 457,727 2.41
Persons
separately, this Fact Sheet presents the key 2.1
employed b)Urban 189,497 201,752 0.90
indicators for the State of Himachal Pradesh c)Combined 576,898 659,479 1.93

along with the all India comparable figures. Persons engaged a)Rural 16,958 17,678 0.60
2.2 in Agricultural b)Urban 961 1,438 5.93
Establishments@
c)Combined 17,919 19,116 0.93
The results of the 5th Economic Census Persons engaged a)Rural 370,443 440,049 2.49
conducted in Himachal Pradesh reveal that 2.3
in Non-
b)Urban 188,536 200,314 0.87
Agricultural
in the year 2005 there were 267,773 Establishments c)Combined 558,979 640,363 1.96
establishments of which 12,014 are
agricultural establishments and 255,759 are KEY RESULTS FOR ALL INDIA
non-agricultural establishments. When
compared with the results of the Fourth
Economic Census conducted in 1998, the Sl.
CAGR*
during
compound annual growth rate of No.
Indicators EC-1998 EC-2005
1998-
2005
establishments during the period 1998-2005
1.Establishments
was of the order of 2.49%. The number of
persons engaged in these 267,773 1.1 Number of establishments 30,348,900 41,826,989 4.69

establishments was of the order of 659,479 of 1.2

Number of Agricultural
3,474,800 6,079,983 8.32
establishments @
which 19,116 are in agricultural establishments
and 640,363 are in the non-agricultural 1.3
Number of Non-Agricultural
establishments
26,874,100 35,747,006 4.16 *CAGR: Compound Annual Growth Rate
establishments. Employment grew at the rate 2.Employment
@: This excludes crop production and
of 1.93% per annum during the period 1998- 2.1 Number of persons employed 83,299,500 100,904,121 2.78
plantation activities which were beyond the
2005. Details of rural, urban break-up both for Persons engaged in coverage of the EC-2005.
2.2 Agricultural 6,748,900 10,913,601 7.11
the year 1998 and 2005 are given in the table establishments@

on the next page. 2.3

Persons engaged in Non-
Agricultural establishments
76,550,600 89,990,520 2.34