<span style="color: #222222;">The government will begin the fieldwork for the seventh Economic Census (7th EC) from Tripura tomorrow. <br />''<br />''The 7th EC is being conducted by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation in 2019. <br />''<br />''The fieldwork in other States and Union Territories will be launched in August and September. <br />''<br />''Economic Census is the complete count of all establishment located within the geographical boundary of the country. It is a periodic exercise conducted by the ministry to provide disaggregated information on various operational and structural aspects of all economic establishments in the country. <br />''<br />''The economic census provides valuable insights into the geographical spread, clusters of economic activities, ownership pattern and persons engaged of all economic establishments in the country. <br />''<br />''The information collected during the Economic Census is useful for socio-economic developmental planning at state and district levels. <br />''<br />''The data for 7th EC will be collected through the door to door survey of each household and commercial establishment.<br />''<br />''The collected data will be kept strictly confidential and used only for developmental planning and statistical purposes by States and Centre.<br />''<br />''Six Economic Censuses have been conducted by the Ministry till date. The Sixth edition of Economic Census was conducted in 2013.</span><br />