Sensitivity of Work Participation Rates to Survey Design Sonalde Desai Santanu Pramanik Dinesh Kumar Tiwari Neerad Deshmukh

This is the first of a series of Measurement Briefs from the NCAER National Data Innovation Centre based on the findings from the Delhi Metropolitan Area Study. This particular Brief on employment outlines the challenges in measuring women’s work and demonstrates how different approaches of...

Glass Half Full: Changes in Standards of Living since 2012 Sonalde Desai Manjistha Banerji Debasis Barik Dinesh Kumar Tiwari Om Prakash Sharma

The National Sample Survey (NSS), the flagship survey providing information on standards of living in India, has recently come under criticism as the Government chose not to release the results of the NSS Consumption Expenditure data from 2017-18 (Jha 2019). Critics argue that this is...   Read More

Supply or Demand: What Accounts for Declining Female Work Participation Rate in Rural India Sonalde Desai Bijay Chouhan Neerad Deshmukh

The past three decades have seen the advent of major transformations in the Indian economy. While the economy has achieved average growth rates of 5–9 per cent, education has risen sharply for both men and women, fertility rates have declined, and infrastructure facilities, particularly access...   Read More