Noteworthy Publications, Reports, Periodicals and Data Sources

1. Census of India, Ministry of Home Affairs

2. Economic Survey of India, Chief Economic Advisor, Ministry of Finance

3. Socioeconomic Census of India, Ministry of Rural Development

4. KLEMS database, Reserve Bank of India

5. Economic Survey for the state of India Report

6. India Exclusion Report, Centre for Equity Studies

7. Inflations Expectations Survey for Households, Reserve Bank of India

8. State of Working India report, Centre for Sustainable Employment, Azim Premji University

9. Teen Age Girl Report, Nandhi Foundation

10. Annual Status of Education Report, Pratham

11. Indian Household Development Survey, University of Maryland and NCAER

12. World Development Report, World Bank

13. Future of Work, World Economic Forum

14. Teacher Absenteeism Report, Azim Premji University

15. Annual Survey of Indian Cities, Janagraha Foundation

16. National Family Health Survey, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

17. Annual Survey of Industries, Ministry of Statistics and Program Implementation

18. Ease of business Index, Asia Competitiveness Index

19. Cost of Living Index, Mercer

20. Swachh Survekshan, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs

21. Additional Rural Income Survey, NCEAR

22. Rural Economic Development Survey, NCEAR

23. World Employment Social Outlook, International Labour Organization

24. Human Development Report, United Nations Development Program

25. World Urbanization Prospects, United Nations Department of Economics and Statistics

26. Annual Survey of Indian City Systems, Janaagraha

27. Doing Business Report, The World Bank

28. Agricultural statistics at a glance, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare

29. City Prosperity Initiative, UN Habitat

30. Handbook of Urban Statistics, Ministry of Urban Development

31. Review of State Road Transport Undertakings, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways

32. Ease of Living Index, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs

33. Statistical Yearbook of India, Ministry of Statistics and Program Implementation

34. Reward work not wealth, Oxfam International

35. Global Wealth Databook, Credit Suisse

36. Social Progress Index, Social Progress Imperative

37. World Migration Report, International Organization for Migration

38. Global Nutrition Report,

39. Global Food Security Index, Economist Intelligence Unit

40. Global Education Monitoring Report

41. State of Policing in India Report, Common Cause and Centre for Study of Developing

Societies

42. Karnataka Household Asset Survey, IIM-Bangalore

43. Public Affairs index, Bangalore Political Action Committee

44. India Philanthropy Report, Bain and Company

45. All India Survey of Higher Education,

46. India Justice Report, TATA Trusts

47. Rural Health Statistics,

48. Theopendata.com: a volunteer driven initiative to supply quality development indicator related data in developing countries

49. All India Debt and Investment Survey, NSS

50. Peoples Report on Basic Education, CORD

51. Global Gender Gap Index, WEF

52. Social Attitudes Research India, RICE

53. Young Lives India Survey, Young Lives India

54. India Wage Report, International Labour Organization

55. Million Deaths Study, Centre for Global Health Research

56. Financial Inclusions Insights Survey, Kantar

57. All India Rural Financial Inclusion Survey, NABARD

58. Industrial Outlook Survey, RBI

59. Food Grain Bulletin, Department of Food and Public Distribution, Ministry of Consumer

Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

60. Index of Industrial Production

61. State of Worlds Children Report, UNICEF

62. Ecowrap (newsletters prepared by the research desk of SBI); https://sbi.co.in/web/about-us/research-desk

63. Indiatradeportal.in

64. Mobile Gender Gap Report, GSMA

65. Our World in Data, Oxford University

66. Chartbookofeconomicinequality.com

67. Sdg-tracker.org

68. How India Lives: howindialives.com

69. India in Pixels (follow on YouTube and Twitter)

70. Jaano India, Swaniti Initiative

71. Mint did a sixteen-part series on the lives of Indians using different datasets. All of the can be found here: https://www.livemint.com/Politics/FEljcOegPt7qBmaXeOm3sK/How-India-

lives-thinks-earns-and-spends.html

72. Indianstatistics.org

73. goldprice.org

74. The Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) has a list of

prominent surveys done in developing countries: http://ibread.org/bread/data

75. Prison Statistics India, National Crime Record Bureau

76. Labour Yearbook India, Ministry of Labour

77. Indiadataportal.com, Bharati Institute of Public Policy, Indian School of Business

78. Crime in India Report, NCRB

79. Global Hunger Index

80. https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/2674065 : Provides shapefiles for parliamentary and

assembly constituencies in India

81. http://devecondata.blogspot.com/ : some more sources of dev econ data sources from

different countries

82. NYU Spatial Data repository

83. Ecourts.gov.in (judicial data in India)

84. State of State Finances, PRS legislative research

85. Seshagun Database, Ministry of Education

86. Socioeconomic data and application centre (SEDAC), Columbia University

87. Shape files for India (the whole country):

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0ByLjiBJ1xOpuTVRIWThhazBLdWM

88. The Telangana data portal: https://data.telangana.gov.in/search/type/dataset

89. Village level shapefiles for a few states in India:

https://github.com/datameet/indian_village_boundaries

90. Indian Statefiles (with Ladakh): https://indiaviz.org/post/india_states_shapefile/

91. Village and pincode level shapefiles in India:

https://revolutionarygis.wordpress.com/tag/india-shapefile/

92. IDFC India Rural Development Report

93. This website is similar to dataverse and BREAD you can get info about large scale surveys:

http://atlas.closer.ac.uk/

94. This page is maintained by Duncan Thomas, professor of Econ at Duke University and contains data about the development sector datasets:

https://ipl.econ.duke.edu/dthomas/dev_data/

95. State of Economic Inclusion Report, The World Bank

96. National Annual Rural Sanitation Survey, the world bank