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Indian Official Statistics
This paper aims at teaching the students to develop their knowledge to make comparisons between countries or understand changes in economic and social development
Indian Official Statistics: Introduction related to the census and population, need, uses, users, relevance, transparency and its visibility. Methods of collecting, compilation, processing, analysis and dissemination of official data, their reliability and limitation. Comparison between Indian and international (UNDP) statistical system.
National statistical organization: Role, functions and activities of central and state statistical organization: NSSO, CSO, Ministry of Statistics and Program implementation and special data dissemination systems.
Economical Statistics: National Income, concept, issues and strategy, method of estimate national income, collection of data and release. inter-sectoral flows, inter industry table, Role, functions and acts of National statistical commission about population, industry and finance. Index numbers: different types, need, data collection mechanism, periodicities, agencies involved and uses.
Agricultural Statistics: Introduction, indicators, agencies and uses, crop forecasting and estimation, productivity, fragmentation of holdings, support price, buffer stock, impact of irrigation projects.
MISC: Socio and economic indicators, gender awareness and statistics, important census and survey. Introduction, role, scope, merits and limitations: Trade Statistics, Labour Statistics, Transport and Communication Statistics, Educational Statistics
Books Recommended/Reference Books
1. Goon, A.M., Gupta, M.K. and Dasgupta, B. Das (1991): Fundamentals of Statistics, Volume II,The World Press Pvt Ltd, Calcutta
2. Guide to Current Indian Official Statistics, Central Statistical Office, GOI, New Delhi.
3. Srivastava, S. S. and Asthana, B. N. (1965): Applied Statistics of India, Chaitnya Publishing House.
