The National Sample Survey Office’s periodic labour force survey 2017-18 — the government has refused to make it public — continues to ooze suppressed data. The latest piece of evidence from the...

The writer is is a civil engineer and data cruncher...

The resignations from the National Statistical Commission (NSC) would undermine the trust in official statistics, and data window-dressing is feared ahead of the elections, economists have said.“It ...

A few weeks ago, it was announced by the Government of India that the labour bureau would no longer publish reports on jobs. These would be replaced by the National Sample Survey Office’s periodic l...

Official economic data are the basis on which policies are made, decisions on private investment taken and the economy’s relative performance determined. For a long time, India’s official statisti...

Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Sunday withdrew his statement that three films doing business worth Rs 120 crore in one day was proof that the Indian economy was doing well.The BJP leader had fa...