From 7th to 9th May 2026, members of the India Human Development Survey (IHDS) Team participated in the Population Association of America (PAA 2026) Annual Meeting held in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
NCAER faculty members Sonalde Desai (Professor and Centre Director, NCAER-NDIC), Pallavi Choudhuri (Senior Fellow and Deputy-Director, NCAER-NDIC), Amaresh Dubey (Senior Consultant, NCAER-NDIC), Sharan Sharma (Non-Resident Fellow, NCAER-NDIC), Debasis Barik (Senior Fellow, NCAER), Bijay Chouhan (Senior Data and Systems Specialist, NCAER), Dinesh Tiwari (Fellow, NCAER), Ruchi Jain (Associate Fellow, NCAER), Dibyasree Ganguly (Associate Fellow, NCAER), Athira Vinod (Post-Doctoral Fellow, NCAER), and Jaya Koti (Research Analyst, NCAER), presented their research based on IHDS data in oral sessions, poster presentations and paper presentations at PAA 2026.
Along with Devneel Basudev Goswami (Senior Associate, Partnerships and Communications, NCAER), the team also set up an IHDS booth to showcase the dataset’s research findings and share updates from the third round of IHDS data collection completed in 2024. Visitors to the booth explored IHDS data related publications including research briefs, issues of the IHDS Research Digest and data-related citations and opinion pieces. As an exclusive to the PAA Booth, visitors were also provided with early access to the newly designed IHDS website via QR code-enabled cards, thus allowing users to explore the platform and share their feedback.
Dr Pallavi Choudhuri, Senior Fellow and Deputy Director at NCAER-NDIC, was invited to speak on gender statistics at the “Gender Statistics and Women-led Development” panel, moderated by Dr. Pankaj Srivastava, Statistical Advisor to the Ministry of Women and Child Development.
The Capacity Building Workshop on Monitoring Frameworks of SDGs, Environment Accounts, and Gender Statistics, held on March 18 was organized by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation and the Government of Bihar, with technical support from UNDP.
Dr Pallavi Choudhuri, Senior Fellow and Deputy Director at NCAER-NDIC, served as a panelist in a session titled, “Women at Work: Understanding Barriers, Advancing Equality” at the second National Convention on Women in India (NCWI) organised on March 9, 2026 at the O. P. Jindal Global University campus. Organised as a part of the inaugural Jindal Interdisciplinary Arts and Literature Festival, the event was held on Day 2 of the festival spanning 8 to 10 March.
Dr Pallavi Choudhuri, Senior Fellow and Deputy Director at NCAER-NDIC, was invited by Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS) on 12 March 2026 to deliver a Public Lecture at the National Workshop on Quantitative Methods in Social Science Research. Dr Choudhuri examined non-sampling biases in household surveys during her discourse and highlighted the use of longitudinal panel data for multivariate analysis, including addressing endogeneity in empirical research.
Dr Pallavi Choudhuri, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow (NCAER-NDIC), served as a panellist at the Inception Workshop of the Gender Responsive Cell, organized by the Department of Agriculture & Farmers’ Empowerment, Government of Odisha, and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in a technical session on “Gender-Responsive Agricultural Transformation: Frameworks, Evidence and Research Priorities”, hosted at the Mayfair Lagoon, Bhubaneswar, Odisha on February 13, 2026.
Chaired by Professor C.S.C. Shankar (Institute of Economic Growth), the panel also included Dr Devesh Roy (Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI), Dr Arun Kumar Panda (Principal Scientist and Head of GFCS Division, Central Institute for Women in Agriculture-ICAR), Dr Somabha Mohanty (National Lead- Gender Resilience and DRR, UN-Women), Dr Manjula Menon (Teaching Faculty at School of Development, Azim Premji University) and Professor Vijay Lakshmi Pandey (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research).
The panel highlighted the need for disaggregated data driven insights, deliberating on the gender-responsive planning, implementation, and monitoring within Odisha’s agricultural sector.
