Poverty Cutoff Low Due to NSSO Data
Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Tuesday blamed faulty data provided by NSSO for the low poverty threshold in the country. The poverty line for 2009-10 has been pegged at
Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Tuesday blamed faulty data provided by NSSO for the low poverty threshold in the country. The poverty line for 2009-10 has been pegged at
Kohima: Union Minister for Drinking Water and Sanitation Birender Singh on Sunday revealed that sixty per cent of the rural population do not have sanitation facilities in the country. “Lack of sanitation
The Planning Commission has periodically estimated poverty lines and poverty ratios for each of the years for which Large Sample Surveys on Household Consumer Expenditure have been conducted by the National
This report presents estimates of various characteristics pertaining to social consumption of education at national as well as State/UT levels in 2014, based on the results of NSS 71st round survey. NSSO
The All-India Debt and Investment Survey, and the Land and Livestock Holding Survey were last conducted in 2003. In what could considered a scorecard of the UPA government’s policies on rural India over the last 10 years, two key reports on debt and investment as well as land holding patterns will be released by the National Sample Survey Office later this year.
The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO), as a part of its 70th round during the period January 2013 - December 2013, carried out an all India household survey on the situation of Land and Livestock Holdings
Statement of the Minister of Home Affairs in response to Rajya Sabha Starred Question No. 371 for 19th February, 2014, asked by Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani regarding differing estimates of India's slum population.
The figure for households without toilets is 47 per cent for Hindu households as against 31 per cent for Muslims and 16 per cent for Christians and Sikhs, according to NSS data. Extensive new evidence
The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO), as a part of its 70th round during the period January 2013 - December 2013, carried out an all India household survey on the situation of Land and Livestock Holdings
Maharashtra accounts for 23 per cent of total slum population, followed by Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal Just under nine million households, or roughly one-eighth of India’s urban population, lives in a slum, according to data from the latest round of the National Sample Survey released on Tuesday. The number is significantly lower than the 14 million slum households identified by the Census in 2011.
The situation is, however, far better in urban India as less than 9% of the population lacks the facility As many as 60 per cent of rural households do not have access to a toilet facility even after 66 years of independence, show official data. The situation is better in urban India, with less than nine per cent lacking the facility.
Says poverty estimates are reasonable The latest official estimate of India’s poor, from a committee chaired by C Rangarajan, head of the former Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, is based
State’s poverty reduction rate ‘impressive’: OES Odisha stands second among the 14 States in the country with highest incidence of poverty after Bihar. While Bihar topped the list with registering highest
India could be overstating poverty levels as the private final consumption estimates captured by the National Income Accounts (NIA) is nearly twice as much as the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO)
Question raised in Lok Sabha on PDS beneficiaries, 21/07/2015 . Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation’s National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) in its Consumer expenditure survey collects data
As part of India Human Development Survey, the team covered 42,000 households across the country. Employment in agriculture has fallen sharply over the last seven years and a combination of farm-oriented
This document provides the poverty estimates for the year 2011-12 updated by Planning Commission as per the methodology recommended by Tendulkar Committee.
Peg decline at 7.8 percentage points between 2009-10 and 2011-12 The poverty rate has declined by 7.8 percentage points in two years, according to the latest estimates by the Planning Commission. If 29.8 per cent of the population was poor in 2009-10, the figure came down to 22 per cent in 2011-12. The estimates are based on the recently-released report by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) for 2011-12.
Key Indicators of Social Consumption in India on Education Show Continued Gender Gap and Rural Urban Differences. In rural areas, literacy rate was seen as 71% compared to 86% in urban areas. Also among
Top 5% of the population had an MPCE of Rs 4,481 in rural areas and Rs 10,282 in urban areas Poorest of poor in the country survive on barely Rs 17 per day in villages and Rs 23 a day in cities, as per the latest data released by the National Sample Survey Office today.