The tragedy about data collection in India is that by the time primary data is converted into usable information, it may be too late to aid policy intervention. This is true of data collected by not just government agencies such as the National Sample Survey Organization but also think tanks such as National Council for Applied Economic Research (NCAER). One of the criticisms of Human Development in India: Challenges for a Society in Transition-a report put together by NCAER and Institute of Maryland, US-is that it is based on data collected in 2004-05, and it does not capture the impact of the changes of the past four years when the economy grew at more than 8% on an average every year.
(a) Data
collected by government agencies and other research organizations in India is generally useless as no reports based on the primary data is available for years-NCAER report on human development
report is an example.
(b) The problem
with data collection in India is that reports
based on the data are not available in time for use-an NCAER report based on 2004-05 data was released
four years later.
(c) The data
collection in India is generally useless because reports to guide policy decisions
are not made in time-an
NCAER report based on 2004-05 data was released four years later.
(d) Data
collected by government agencies and other research organizations in India is generally useless; an NCAER report on human development report was released four
years after the data was gathered.
(e) Data
collected by government agencies and other research organizations in India is generally delayed and do not guide policy
decisions-NCAER is an
example.
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