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Good and Bad Statistics

Vol. 58, Issue No. 37, 16 Sep, 2023
G Raveendran

There has been a public debate on the quality of offi cial statistics being produced by the Indian statistical system. The debate was initiated by persons holding high positions in the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister and claimed that the existing survey mechanisms were archaic and not adapted for rapid changes, and thus grossly underestimated India’s progress. It also made an assessment that India’s offi cial statistics are excellent on the administrative side and mediocre on censuses and surveys. This article examines the basis on which the above statements were made and proves its fallacy.

Understanding Urban Digitalisation Projects in India: Platformisation, Infrastructuring, and Datafication

Vol. 58, Issue No. 25-26, 24 Jun, 2023
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Forging Uncharted Horizons: Navigating the Risks of AI

With its problem-solving capabilities, Artificial Intelligence (AI) could very well be the unrivalled solution to the most intractable problems of our time. However, AI might not just yet be the icing on the cake we were looking for- there are significant constraints to be considered that prevent it from being a perfect solution to all possible problems, and the debate on ethics of Artificial Intelligence remains ridden with complexities.

Platformisation, Infrastructuring, and Datafication

Vol. 58, Issue No. 14, 08 Apr, 2023
Khaliq Parkar, Marie-Helene Zerah,  Gaurav Mittal

The existing research on smart cities in India is situated either in the discursive understanding of the Indian idea of smart or analysis of selected cities’ experiments. Breaking from this dichotomy, it is argued that rolling out of smart cities should be read along a longer history of neo-liberal municipal reforms, which has led to institutional rescaling through the special purpose vehicles and entrenched networks of consultants that drive contemporary urban interventions.

Using ChatGPT in Research

Vol. 58, Issue No. 13, 01 Apr, 2023
Jaheer Mukthar K P

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Information and Communication Technology and Female Labour Market Participation

Vol. 58, Issue No. 11, 18 Mar, 2023
Ritika Jain, Tirtha Chatterjee

Does information and communication technology adoption lead to any broad differences in women’s labour force participation behaviour in India? We use the India Human Development Survey to examine employment decisions of women and find that its adoption leads to improvement in employment measures only for urban women.

Need for a Data Privacy Law

Vol. 57, Issue No. 34, 20 Aug, 2022
Gaurav Pathak

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On the Adequacy of the Quarterly Periodic Labour Force Survey

Vol. 57, Issue No. 17, 23 Apr, 2022
G C Manna

This article examines the difference between the estimates of unemployment rate and worker population ratio in urban areas in the Periodic Labour Force Surveys for the quarters ending March and June 2021. It further investigates the sample size needed if the survey is to be equipped to detect the quarterly changes of specifi ed magnitudes in the respective population parameter.

Emerging Pattern and Trend of Migration in Megacities

Vol. 57, Issue No. 15, 09 Apr, 2022
Reimeingam Marchang

Rural-to-urban migration, particularly between states, towards megacities continues to contribute to their overall growth, although the trajectory of migration is shifting towards smaller cities.

The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Formal Sector Crisis in IT and ITeS

Vol. 57, Issue No. 14, 02 Apr, 2022
Smriti Singh

The information technology and information technology-enabled services sector in India have largely been opaque, with little known about its social profile, work conditions, and office culture. The sector hides its everyday workings behind massive revenue figures and the number of jobs in the organised sector it has created. What slips through the cracks is the precarious nature of these permanent jobs and the shocking ineffectiveness of employee protections. These vulnerabilities, built into the employment and work culture of the sector, acquired a nightmarish quality during the COVID-19 pandemic. With most IT companies being forced to shift their employees to work-from-home formats, it is crucial to study how these vulnerabilities have affected the latter. This paper draws upon media reports, a short online survey, and telephonic interviews to highlight the working conditions in the IT and ITeS sector, the experience of working from home, and the overall state of its permanent employment.

 
 

Reflections on the NITI Aayog Multidimensional Poverty Index

Vol. 57, Issue No. 14, 02 Apr, 2022
Sanjay K Mohanty, U S Mishra, K D Maiti

The availability of information from the pan-India household survey, the National Family Health Survey, facilitates the adoption of the global multidimensional poverty framework and helps in generating results for the Indian states and districts, but it fails to capture the true level of multiple deprivations in better-off states and urban areas. The explicit limitation of the fresh endeavour by the NITI Aayog is its lack of comparability across the spectrum of human development within the country.

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