Webinar by Mr. Vaidik Chakraborty

Webinar on “Sequential Ordering of Deprivations: Its Application on District-Level Measurement in India and a Cluster Mapping of Level-Sensitive Improvements”

To be presented by Shri. Vaidik Chakraborty, PhD Scholar, CDS and Prof. Udaya S. Mishra, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, on an online mode on Thursday the 12th October from 11 am onwards.

The discussant of the seminar is Prof. Sanjay K. Mohanty, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai

ABSTRACT: In this paper we have introduced a systemic structure for interpersonal comparability among deprivations. We used a stage-wise inclusive partial deprivation model for developing economies, to estimate for the intensity of multidimensional deprivations among people and communities. We have selected India as a developing country for the analysis and have taken households as the unit of analysis. We used a quartile-based measure for a comparative study among the Indian states, regions (urban and rural) and the demographic health surveys (DHS) survey rounds between 2015 and 2019. We also accounted for the base effect for the respective outcomes – using level-sensitive outcomes for further analysis. Finally, using Moran’s I and univariate LISA we even located the clusters (of districts) of high-improvement (hot-spots) in terms of the corresponding measures.

Vaidik Chakraborty is a PhD research scholar at Centre for Development Studies, JNU. He has completed his M.Sc. from Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, and did his M.Phil. at the Centre for Development Studies, JNU. He has been working on Multidimensional Poverty for his PhD thesis.

Udaya S. Mishra is a Professor at the Department of Bio-Statistics, International Institute for Population Sciences. He is a renowned author and has published in numerous journals both internationally and in India. He has over 30 years of teaching and research experience. Priorly, he was a Professor at the Centre for Development Studies, JNU, and has also been associated with some of the top universities like Harvard University, University of Amsterdam, University of Southampton, York University and more. He has also collaborated with multiple international organizations, including WHO, the UN Statistical Division and the Ford Foundation.