Annual Survey of Unincorporated Sector Enterprises (ASUSE) Results for 2025

• ASUSE is the annual successor to NSSO's earlier Unincorporated Non-Agricultural Enterprises survey, conducted by the National Statistical Office (NSO) under MoSPI to measure India's informal/unorganised non-agricultural sector covering manufacturing, trade and other services (excluding construction).
• ASUSE 2025 (Jan–Dec 2025) shows the informal economy expanded to 7.92 crore establishments with GVA growing 10.87% y-o-y, signalling post-pandemic formalisation and recovery of the unorganised sector.
• Critical for UPSC because it feeds GDP/GVA estimation, informal employment data, and policy design for MSMEs, gig workers, Mudra, PM Vishwakarma, e-Shram.