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Welcome back, future Indian Statistical Service (ISS) officers! Take a deep breath and give yourselves a round of applause. With today’s session, we are officially concluding Module 4: Social & Demographic Statistics (The People Part). Over the past few blogs, we have counted the sheer size of our population through the Census (Part 11), tracked … Read more
Welcome back, future Indian Statistical Service (ISS) officers! In our previous session, Part 12: Vital Statistics, we decoded how the Office of the Registrar General of India (ORGI) tracks the continuous cycle of births and deaths through the Civil Registration System (CRS) and the Sample Registration System (SRS). We learned the formulas for Infant Mortality … Read more
Welcome back, future Indian Statistical Service (ISS) officers! In our previous session, Part 11: The Grand Count, we kicked off Module 4: Social & Demographic Statistics by exploring the massive machinery behind the Population Census. We learned how the government counts 1.4 billion people and maps their housing and demographics every ten years. But here … Read more
Welcome back, future Indian Statistical Service (ISS) officers! Take a moment to pat yourselves on the back. We have officially crossed the halfway mark of our journey! In Module 1, we built the grand administrative architecture of MoSPI and the NSO. In Module 2, we chased the money, decoding GDP, Inflation, and Industrial output. In … Read more
Welcome back, future Indian Statistical Service (ISS) officers! You have successfully reached the grand finale of Module 3: Agricultural Statistics. In our previous session (Part 9), we walked through the fascinating fields of India, learning how the government estimates the area sown and the total crop yield using traditional Patwaris (TRS/EARAS) and scientific Crop Cutting … Read more
Welcome back, future Indian Statistical Service (ISS) officers! Congratulations! You have successfully conquered Module 2: Economic Statistics, where we decoded the complex mathematics of GDP, Inflation (CPI/WPI), Industrial Output (IIP/ASI), and the formulas of Index Numbers. Today, we take a massive shift in our journey. We are stepping out of the air-conditioned corporate factories and … Read more
Welcome back, future Indian Statistical Service (ISS) officers! We have arrived at a very special milestone. Today, we are officially wrapping up Module 2: Economic Statistics (The Money Part). Over the past few sessions, we have successfully decoded the nation’s wealth through GDP and National Accounts (Part 5), tracked the cost of living and inflation … Read more
Welcome back, future Indian Statistical Service (ISS) officers! You have been making fantastic progress. In our previous session (Part 6), we completely updated our knowledge on how inflation is measured using the CPI and WPI, and we noted the massive statistical shift happening across the country with the introduction of the new 2022-23 base year. … Read more
Welcome back, future Indian Statistical Service (ISS) officers! In our previous session, Part 5 we mastered how the National Accounts Division (NAD) measures the overall wealth and production of our economy through GDP and GVA. Towards the end of that blog, we encountered a critical concept: the difference between Nominal GDP and Real GDP. We … Read more
Welcome back, future Indian Statistical Service (ISS) officers! Congratulations on successfully completing Module 1, where we decoded the vast administrative and legal architecture of the Indian Statistical System. We explored the corridors of MoSPI, understood the watchdog role of the NSC, and paid our respects to the Father of Indian Statistics, Prof. P.C. Mahalanobis. Now, … Read more