Workshop on Database on Indian Economy

CDS Workshop on Database on Indian Economy
Sponsored by ICSSR, Govt. of India
5th to 16th December, 2022

Centre for Development Studies announces the second edition of its workshop on ‘Database on Indian economy’ (click here for the Brochure). The workshop is funded by Indian Council for Social Science Research. The statistical system in India has been revamped in the past few years. This workshop at CDS would introduce participants to databases on India pertaining to economic performance such as growth and development, financial indicators, infrastructure, institutions, regional and geographical information. The focus of the lectures would be to understand: Important databases and their sources; Database and debates relevant to India; Concepts and definitions of relevant indicators using these databases; Scope of the data (spatial, temporal and representativeness); Issues and limitations of these databases such as reliability, comparability across other databases for similar indicators and possibilities of merging different datasets. The course this year would also provide hands-on-training on data extraction and basic statistics to participants. The course is targeted primarily at Economics research students and young faculty members of India.

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Programme Schedule