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

Block 4 will record the principal receipts in seven sub-blocks corresponding to which the principal expenses have already been collected in block 3. The items are earmarked in the sub-blocks activity wise against which the principal receipts will appear. In the paragraphs given below, detailed instructions are provided to collect information on these items. As said earlier, there will be some commonality in items between blocks 4 and 4.1. Precaution has to be taken that whenever an item has already been covered in block 4, receipts are not duplicated against a similar item in block 4.1. Examples of such items are: service charges (items 442, 454, 463, 464 and 482 of block 4) and receipts from services provided (item 491 of block 4.1). Again items 473 and 483 of block 4 and item 495 of block 4.1 relate to donations. In each such case, priority will be given to items of block 4 over block 4.1. The approach of data collection will be the amount receivable during the reference month.

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.

Total value of items 409 and 413 will give the total principal receipts from the manufacturing unit.


The figure is total of the following item-
Value of output of 3 major products/by- products. Value for goods manufactured (actually sold or not sold) at ex-factory value. If the number of products and by-products exceeds 3, the value of remaining products will be added together and the total will be shown against item 404. The intermediate products (Intermediate products are used in the production of final products of the manufacturing unit. Intermediate products lose their identity in the final product) made by the enterprise and meant for further processing are generally not included here, but if they are sold as they are, they should be included.

Item 405: The ex-factory sale values of all goods incidental to manufacturing which were sold in the reference month in the same condition as they were purchased will be recorded here. This will also include the sale value of goods bought exclusively for re-sale.

Valuation : The values of finished products and by-products which were produced and made ready for sale/use/free distribution/home consumption and the value of intermediate products, if any, that were produced and made ready for sale during the reference period, will be recorded in whole number of rupees. Value of manufactured products lost by theft/damage/destroyed by fire etc. during the reference period will also be included. The ex-factory value of the products and by-products will be reported here. It excludes excise duty paid or sales tax realised by the enterprise on behalf of the Government as also all distributive expenses incurred such as discount or rebate, charges for carriage outward, commission to selling agents, etc.

Items 411 to 413 : For any manufacturing process, a stock of semi-finished goods (goods which are yet to get the shape of final product) remains at the beginning and at the end of the reference period. The net balance (item 412 - item 411) of such semi-finished goods forms a sort of notional output for that enterprise. The value of net balance of semi-finished goods will be recorded against item 413 with appropriate sign ('+' for increase and '-' for decrease).