The Index of Industrial Production (IIP) is a short-term micro economic indicator widely used in measuring the industrial growth of the State. The index indicates the relative change over time in the volume of production in industrial sector and it is an effective tool to measure the trend of current industrial production. The Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Department of Statistics, Rajasthan has been compiling/releasing index of industrial production for the Rajasthan State since 1971 as per the guidelines of the Central Statistical Office (CSO), Govt. of India.

Present status of IIP in Rajasthan

At present state compiled IIP on a monthly basis under base year 2011-12. For base year 2011-12 the weight selection of item basket and selection of units list has been provided by C.S.O. Kolkata. Base year 2011-12 IIP series based on 156 items/product groups for manufacturing sector, NIC 2008 Divisions 10 to 32 are considered. Publication of IIP annual report released upto 2023-24.

Three major sectors in IIP : –

• • Manufacturing:- For Manufacturing Sector the Production data is collecting for selected items from selected industrial units through district statistical officer’s and Now IIP web Portal has been developed for collection of regular data from districts through an on-line system
• • Mining:- Mining sector production data is supplied by Indian Bureau of Mines, (IBM) Nagpur.
• • Electricity:- Electricity sector generation figures furnished by the Central Electricity Authority New Delhi through C.S.O.(https://cea.nic.in)

Selection of Units

• • The units producing a particular item will first be arranged in descending order of production
• •Cut off point accounting for a reasonable portion of the item’s total production in the State, say at least 25%, may determine the number of units to be selected in the sample for that particular item.

Collection of Data for Base year (2011-12)

• • For any selected item, the month-wise production data is to be collected from selected list of units.
• •Monthly production of each factory/unit for the year 2011-12 is to be computed in average bases and sum this average monthly production figures for all those selected factories for this item.
• • This figure will be the base year quantity for the ith item, which will be used in compilation of IIP.