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  "id": "economy/payroll",
  "name": "Formal payroll additions",
  "hub": "Economy",
  "topic": "Jobs and businesses",
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  "url": "https://data.indiadispatch.com/economy/epfo-payroll",
  "period": "July 2025",
  "periodKey": "2025-07",
  "latest": {
    "formattedValue": "2.1 million"
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    "url": "https://www.epfindia.gov.in/"
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  "unit": "count",
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  "sourceRights": "Underlying source publishers retain their own rights. This license does not grant rights to publisher documents, branding or other third-party material.",
  "attribution": "India by the numbers, Formal payroll additions, July 2025, https://data.indiadispatch.com/economy/epfo-payroll. Source: Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation.",
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            "1.45 million",
            "1.94 million",
            "1.43 million"
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          "id": "2025-05",
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            "994,824",
            "1.31 million",
            "1.78 million",
            "1.46 million"
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          "id": "2025-06",
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            "1 million",
            "1.81 million",
            "1.9 million"
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            "979,383",
            "518,459",
            "1.64 million",
            "2.1 million"
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            "8.46 million",
            "7.73 million",
            "823,325",
            "1.55 million"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2018-19",
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            "2018-19",
            "13.94 million",
            "12.3 million",
            "4.46 million",
            "6.11 million"
          ]
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        {
          "id": "2019-20",
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            "2019-20",
            "11.04 million",
            "11 million",
            "7.81 million",
            "7.86 million"
          ]
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            "2020-21",
            "8.55 million",
            "9.78 million",
            "8.94 million",
            "7.71 million"
          ]
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        {
          "id": "2021-22",
          "cells": [
            "2021-22",
            "10.87 million",
            "11.99 million",
            "13.36 million",
            "12.23 million"
          ]
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        {
          "id": "2022-23",
          "cells": [
            "2022-23",
            "11.5 million",
            "13.37 million",
            "15.72 million",
            "13.85 million"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2023-24",
          "cells": [
            "2023-24",
            "10.99 million",
            "14.99 million",
            "17.14 million",
            "13.15 million"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2024-25",
          "cells": [
            "2024-25",
            "11.39 million",
            "18.34 million",
            "19.93 million",
            "12.98 million"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Annual ESIC registrations",
      "temporalCoverage": "2017-04-01/2026-03-31",
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        "New registrations",
        "New registrations paying"
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            "11,142,408",
            "8,335,929"
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          "id": "2018-19",
          "cells": [
            "2018-19",
            "20,240,603",
            "14,965,972"
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "2019-20",
          "cells": [
            "2019-20",
            "20,600,773",
            "15,145,261"
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        },
        {
          "id": "2020-21",
          "cells": [
            "2020-21",
            "15,090,008",
            "11,505,302"
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        },
        {
          "id": "2021-22",
          "cells": [
            "2021-22",
            "19,402,743",
            "14,912,698"
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        },
        {
          "id": "2022-23",
          "cells": [
            "2022-23",
            "21,899,201",
            "16,773,023"
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        {
          "id": "2023-24",
          "cells": [
            "2023-24",
            "22,149,793",
            "16,760,872"
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        {
          "id": "2024-25",
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            "2024-25",
            "22,587,895",
            "16,836,519"
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        },
        {
          "id": "2025-26",
          "cells": [
            "2025-26",
            "19,691,013",
            "14,418,813"
          ]
        }
      ]
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