Ruchi Jain is a Senior Research Analyst at NCAER. She is a demographer by training and has received PhD and MPhil degrees in population studies from International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai. Her primary research interests are in public health, gender, reproductive and sexual health and migration. At NCAER, she has worked on various projects like IDRC, IHDS, and Rural Housing. Currently, she is working with the National Data Innovation Centre. Her doctoral work focused on assessing behaviours of the single migrant women in Delhi and its impact on their sexual and mental health. She is a recipient of the UGC-NET fellowship for lectureship. She was also awarded JR Rele award for the best research paper. She has also published high impact articles in peer-reviewed journals.
Pallavi Choudhuri is a Senior Fellow and the Deputy Director at the NCAER-National Data Innovation Center (NDIC). Her primary research interests are in the areas of social protection, informality, poverty, employment, and gender. Previously, at NDIC, she has led experiments on measurement gaps in income and consumption data and women’s paid and unpaid work. She is part of the core research team for the Indian Human Development Survey (IHDS), involved with the design and implementation of the third wave of the survey.
Her work has been published in both international and domestic journals, along with contributions to Indian (English language) newspapers. She is the lead editor of the book, “India’s Social and Economic Transformation in the 21st Century”, an edited volume of articles using data from various rounds of the IHDS, published by Routledge (2023).
She is an active member of several national and international organizations in economics and demography and has also served on government committees during my work at NCAER.
Prior to joining NCAER, Choudhuri taught courses in Economics at the Grand Valley State University in Michigan as a Visiting Assistant Professor. She received my PhD. in Economics from the University of Wyoming.
Neeraj Kumar is an IT Helpdesk Executive at NCAER. As an IT professional, he is skilled in hardware and networking. His role entails maintaining technical and administrative procedures, providing technical support on IT infrastructure/incident management and ensuring effective technical solutions. He has a Diploma in Computers and Networking, and is currently pursuing a BCA/MCA Integrated Programme at the Indira Gandhi National Open University.
Jaya Koti is a Research Analyst at NCAER, working with the National Data Innovation Centre (NDIC) and India Human Development Survey (IHDS)-III. She holds a Master’s Degree in Rural Development from Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). She has worked on various projects like “Under Nutrition and Public Policy in India”, “India Human Development Survey”, etc. Her expertise lies in data preparation, cleaning and analysis, and presenting. She has worked with large data sets such as the NSS, NFHS, and IHDS. She primarily works with different statistical softwares and operating systems, including STATA, SPSS and CSPro.
