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The road to Universal Health Coverage in India

June 04, 2025 5:50 pm

Amid a surge in investments by business entities and a decisive shift towards an insurance-led framework, India’s health system stands at an inflection point

With new consumption survey, the need for new indices

March 12, 2024 10:02 am

The survey will lead to fresh poverty estimates. It will also have implications for inflation and monetary policy

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Express View: Consumption expenditure survey is necessary to fill data vacuum in India

February 26, 2024 7:36 am

With the release of the detailed information gathered, it will be possible to better understand trends in poverty and inequality over the past decade or so — a period marked by considerable changes in the economy

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Household Consumption Expenditure Survey: Monthly spend of farm families below rural average

February 27, 2024 9:12 am

The survey report shows that the average MPCE of families “self-employed in agriculture” was Rs 3,702 in 2022-23 (August-July), while the overall average of rural households was Rs 3,773.

70% informal workers SC, ST, OBCs; majority in farm sector

November 17, 2021 7:20 am

The estimations are significant because they offer, for the first time, an indicator of the social profile of the informal sector workers in the country.

Red flags by data panel chief: ‘Mistrust, attacks may contaminate economic data for next 10 years’

Red flags by data panel chief Pronab Sen: ‘Mistrust, attacks may contaminate economic data for next 10 years’

February 13, 2020 7:02 am

The survey system is already in “deep trouble” and given the increasing instances of such attacks, conducting household surveys with the Census as the frame would be “very tough” going ahead, said Pronab Sen.

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Present operations and aims of country’s statistical system are at alarming variance with past legacy

January 08, 2020 10:08 am

The danger that the system can be subverted increases when there are pressures to misuse the statistical system for political purposes. For example, there is a genuine fear that the exercise of preparing a National Population Register (NPR) as a prelude to Census 2021 could be subject to such misuse.