India - Informal Non-Agricultural Enterprises Survey: NSS 55th Round : July 1999 - June 2000

Yearly figure reported here has been arrived by multiplying by 12 in case of perennial and casual enterprises and by no. of months operated in case of seasonal enterprises.

Trading is an act of purchase and sale of goods without any transformation. A grocery shop or a fruit vendor typifies a trading unit in the informal sector. The major three commodities of the trading enterprise will be recorded against items 311 to 313. The combined value of purchase of the remaining items will be reported against item 314. For credit purchase also full value of the commodities will be reported. Purchase price will include transport charge, sale tax, octroi and any other incidental charges mixed up with the cost of commodities. Barter trading should not be treated as trading activity. Selling of own produce is also not covered under trade.