P C Mohanan

There was a polarisation of views on getting the caste data included in the Census, with the government taking a negative posture while the Opposition was united in demanding it

The decline in poverty at the national level, by 17.2 percentage points, however, would be considered very sharp during the period from 2011-12 to 2023-24

Efforts at providing robust data for unorganised sector, which plays an important role in livelihood and survival of the poor, has so far been half-hearted, producing no comparable evidence over time

In the concluding part, the authors say what is lost in discrediting the NSSO report is the story of change taking place in the economy and society

In the first of a two-part series, the authors dispel misgivings about the methodology used by NSSO in its Periodic Labour Force Survey