NCAER - NATIONAL DATA INNOVATION CENTRE
Overview
Since its inception in December 2017, the NCAER National Data Innovation Centre has been
promoting methodological research in data collection for strengthening India’s data
ecosystem. As part of NDIC’s mandate to build a community of innovators in the data
sphere, student-faculty paired teams are awarded small grants every year to develop and
test innovative data collection strategies and alternative measurement approaches on
topics relevant to NDIC’s research goals. Students pursuing their PhD degree or equivalent
in any Indian academic or research institute are eligible to apply. The RFPs outlining broad
research topics and the final reports submitted by these student grantees for the years
2018-19 and 2019-21 can be accessed here.
2018-19
RFP
• NCAER-NDIC has invited Student Research Proposals supervised by
faculty members on methodologies for data collection and analysis
across the following domains: gender equity, income from different
sources, consumption expenditure, employment and unemployment,
financial inclusion, health insurance and health expenditure, and
agriculture.
• The last date for submission of proposals has lapsed. Detailed
information is available here.
List of partners
Anirudh Tagat, Mehmet Özmen and Pushpa L. Trivedi
Anuvinda P. and Sujoy Chakravarty
Monalisha Chakraborty and Subrata Mukherjee
Srikrishna Ayyangar and team
2019-21
RFP
• NCAER-NDIC invites proposal on methodologies for data collection and
analysis across the following domains: gender equity, health system,
health insurance and healthcare expenditure, employment and
unemployment, family planning, and financial inclusion. The proposals
should focus on innovative ideas to improve data quality pertaining to
these aspects; Fulfilling data needs and bridging gaps, Mode of data
collection, Questionnaire designing, Social desirability bias, Interview
setting, Survey implementation.
• The last date for submission of proposals has lapsed. Detailed
information is available here.
List of partners
Shree Saha and Sudha Narayanan
Azharuddin Akhtar