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An avoidable controversy over sample surveys
‘All the surveys listed follow scientific sampling design, which is widely accepted internationally as well’. Photo…
The narrative of statistical decline needs a lot of corrective reworking
Lately there has been a steady flood of articles and op-eds complaining about the fallibility of…
What They Don’t Tell You About India’s Poverty Numbers
Two main criteria are generally used to assess the progress of a modern economy: the rate…
Measuring women’s work participation: why it’s important to get it right
Representative file image. , Photo Credit: V. Ganesan The Economic Survey (ES) of 2022-23 must be…
How Dalit Entrepreneurs Fight Caste With Capital
As a member of the Dalit community, the 28-year-old feels acutely the lack of capital flowing…
Gadgil vs Mahalanobis: The Great Indian Data War
When we think of India’s big data debate, two immediately come to mind. The first and…
Professor who taught the world the art of sampling
In the summer of 1946, at the ‘Atomic’ session of the United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC),…
Definitions are important for poverty measurement
The most significant agreement with some of the expert analyzes from our paper (Bhalla-Bhasin-Virmani, Epidemics, Poverty…
Nine Lives of India’s National Family Health Survey
The wide attention it receives from the latest findings of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS)…