MHA sets up census workstation set up at IIM Bangalore

The Ministry of Home Affairs has set up a census workstation at Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB).

Deepak Rastogi, Additional Registrar General, India, will inaugurate the facility at IIMB at 12:30 pm on Friday.

The facility is open to all, including those who have not enrolled or are not a part of IIM Bangalore.

The workstation will be fully equipped with all the facilities for research on confidential micro-data from Census 2001 and Census 2011.

"Analytics and big-data is one of the primary research areas of IIMB and this association with the Office of the Registrar General will further strengthen the analytics and big-data research focus at IIMB," said Data Centre and Analytics Lab chairperson Professor U. Dinesh Kumar.

The objective for setting up the workstation is to permit qualified researchers an optimum use of anonymized micro-data from census for in-depth research by allowing access for generating cross-tabulations which are not published by the Census.

Such research would allow greater utilization of data by way of generating cross-tabulations from confidential micro-data not otherwise possible by using aggregate level data available in public domain.

An in-depth study might also contribute towards using improved methodology of data collection during census as well as identifying strengths and weaknesses of the micro-data.