Employment Provident Fund Payroll Data

The collection contains master data on employees payroll from the year 2017-18 to till date. The specifics of data contained in the dataset include year-, month-, state-, age-group-, industry-type- and gender-wise compiled data on estimate number of payroll members and the number of new, exited and rejoined subscribers in Employment Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) The Employment Provident Fund (EPF) was launched in the year 1951 under the Employees Provident Fund Act to administer contributory provident fund, pension scheme and an insurance scheme. It promotes to save funds for retirement for the workforce engaged in the organized sector in India. The Act and Schemes framed there under are administered by a tri-partite Board known as the Central Board of Trustees, Employees' Provident Fund, consisting of representatives of Government (Both Central and State), Employers, and Employees. It is one of the world’s largest organizations in terms of clientele and the volume of financial transactions undertaken by it. The Board is assisted by the Employees’ Provident Fund Organization (EPFO), which functions under Ministry of Labour and Employment.