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District-Level Unincorporated Sector Estimates (ASUSE)
For the first time the National Statistical Office has broken its big enterprise survey down to the district, mapping where India's unincorporated non-farm businesses actually are, how productive they are and how much of the work women do - 757 districts, from ASUSE 2025.
Last updated 17 September 20267 min read
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Opened a card on the NSO's first district-level portrait of India's unincorporated non-farm economy. Built from ASUSE 2025 and covering 757 of 770 districts, it shows the top 50 districts holding nearly a third of all establishments, workers and value added; women making up at least a third of the workforce in 237 districts; and 280 districts beating the all-India GVA per worker of Rs 1,56,539. Delhi, Lakshadweep and Chandigarh get no district figures.
- ASUSE 2025
- unincorporated sector
- NSO
- MoSPI
- district-level estimates
- GVA per worker
- enterprise survey
- female entrepreneurship
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