NCAER - NATIONAL DATA INNOVATION CENTRE
Gurucharan Manna joined NCAER as a Senior Adviser at NCAER. He was the Director General of CSO and NSSO in the Government of India. Dr Manna has nearly 40 years of specialized experience in sample design, estimation procedures for household and establishment surveys, and the design of survey questionnaires and related documents for fieldwork and data validation. Over the years, his responsibilities at NSSO/CSO have included the compilation of GDP estimates; conduct of the 6th Economic Census; technical coordination and supervision of the Annual Survey of Industries, Energy Statistics, and Infrastructure Statistics; compilation of the Index of Industrial Production and the Index of Service Production; finalization of survey methodologies and reports for NSSO socio-economic surveys; and compilation of foreign trade statistics. Dr Manna is currently a member of the Ministry of Statistics Standing Committee on Labour Force Statistics, the Working Groups of the NSS 75th and 76th Rounds, the NSSO’s Standing Committee on Labour Force Statistics, and the Labour Bureau’s Expert Group on the Quarterly Employment Survey.
JOURNAL | Economic and Political Weekly
Moving Beyond the Current Approach of Measuring Short Term Growth in Industrial Production
Gurucharan Manna
June 2017
JOURNAL | Sarvekshana, 100th Issue, 2016
Surveys on Employment-Unemployment by the NSSO and Labour Bureau: Emerging Issues and Way Forward Towards Developing an Integrated Database
Gurucharan Manna
2016
JOURNAL | The Journal of Industrial Statistics, Volume 4, Number 2
Exploring an Alternative Index of Industrial Production
Gurucharan Manna
September 2015
JOURNAL | The Journal of Industrial Statistics, Volume 2, Number 1
A Study of Cross-validation of Growth Rates of Industrial Production Based on IIP and ASI for Some Important Item Groups
Gurucharan Manna
March 2013
JOURNAL | Sarvekshana, 98th Issue
Towards Meeting the Data Requirements at Sub-State Level from the NSS
Gurucharan Manna
2013
BOOK CHAPTER | Routledge
Data on Manufacturing Sector: Current Status and Challenges
Gurucharan Manna
2014
Paper Presentation | NSSO for the Seminar on NSS 70th and 71st RoundsDisparity across States in the Level of Income, Income Inequality and Proportion of Poor Among agricultural Households in India
Gurucharan Manna
June 2017
Paper Presentation | Symposium on GDP Estimation
An Investigation into Some Contentious Issues of GDP Estimation; Paper presented in the Symposium on GDP Estimation
Gurucharan Manna
January 2017
Paper Presentation | Services Sector Statistics
Co-authored the Theme Paper on Services Sector Statistics for the 8th Statistics Day celebrated on 29 June 2014
Gurucharan Manna
2014
Paper Presentation | NCAER Symposium
An article on the topic “National Sample Surveys: Scope, Methods and their Evolution
Gurucharan Manna
November 2013
Paper Presentation | Private Final consumption Expenditure
Prepared a divisional paper regarding the Impact of Revised Rates and Ratios pertaining to manufactured items and services sector, derived based on latest surveys, on the overall official estimate of Private Final consumption Expenditure
Gurucharan Manna
2013