The State of Demographic and Health Data in India
IMPRI Team The census data has proven to be useful for not only administrative purposes but also…
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Practitioner Reflections on the Data & Evidence Ecosystem
Arjun Kumar, Anshula Mehta, Mahima Kapoor, Swati Solanki Data is a word that has taken center stage…
Big Tech Regulation: One step back will not prevent future steps forward
TK Arun A federal court in the US has thrown out an anti-trust lawsuit filed against Facebook…
Amorphous Indian Migration Statistical System
Arjun Kumar, Ritika Gupta, Sunidhi Agarwal, Sakshi Sharda, Anshula Mehta, Chhavi Kapoor The second wave of Corona…
Uses and Abuses of Statistics
Utpal K De, Arjun Kumar Everyone is well aware of the uses of statistics – how data…
Disastrous Decade for Data
Disastrous decade for data
he daunting challenges concerning data posed by the CAA-NPR-NRC debate have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and Recession. The reluctance of the government to release official data needs to be resolved urgently. As India unlocks, postponement of NPR and only doing the first phase of the 2021 census work will be a logical step to ensure that the census does not suffer from the limited window during which the entire work is expected to be completed.
Arjun Kumar IMPRI