By PC Mohanan

There are some new initiatives from the ministry of statistics and programme implementation to enhance survey-based estimates in socio-economic sectors and the delivery of statistical products to users. Base years over a decade old have been used for economic indicators like GDP , index of industrial production (IIP), and consumer price index ( CPI ), now they are being revised. Survey-based monthly labour force indicators and quarterly sectoral surveys have been instituted; and an improved website-based data dissemination is in place. Above all, the long overdue population census operations are, at last, underway. These are indeed welcome after years of near slumber and silence, especially when its data failed to support the political narrative of the day.

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