International Journal of Research in Social Sciences

This paper examines the current scenario of manufacturing units in Kerala, with focusing mainly on measuring and analyzing the growth, productivity and some important ratios of industrial production in Kerala. The growth of manufacturing units were examined with the use of five variables; Number of factories, Invested capital, Net Value added, Profit and Gross capital formation. Material and labour productivity were calculated and studied to have a picture about Kerala manufacturing sector and the ratios such as cost to create one job, share of wages in value added, average wage, productivity of each employee and incremental capital output ratio were computed to have an understanding on the sector in Kerala. Secondary data which is collected from Annual Survey of Industries published by Ministry of statistics and program implementation, Government of India for five years were collected and used in the study and data are analyzed for the period 2010–15.