India - Annual Survey of Industries (Summary): 1981-82

TOTAL PERSONS ENGAGED include the employees as defined above and all working proprietors and their family members who are actively engaged in the work of the factory even without any pay and the unpaid members of the co-operative societies who worked in or for the factory in any direct and productive capacity.

The number of workers or employees is an average number obtained by dividing mandays worked by the number of days the factory had worked during the reference year.