MoSPI gets real with artificial intelligence: Surveys to use chatbotsThe Statistics Ministry is adding Artificial Intelligence to its work. AI chatbots will be used in important surveys. This will give policy...
25 Jun, 2025, 10.02 AM IST
Household income survey set for February launchIndia plans to conduct a Household Income Survey in February 2026. The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation will oversee it....
24 Jun, 2025, 12.48 AM IST
85.5% Indian households posses at least one smartphone, 99.5% youth use UPI: MoSPI surveyA recent survey by MoSPI reveals that over 85% of Indian households now own smartphones, with internet access available within the premises...
29 May, 2025, 10.00 PM IST
Govt revamps employment survey, extends quarterly data to rural India for the first timeThe Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) will enhance labour force data dissemination by publishing the Periodic Lab...
14 May, 2025, 06.41 PM IST
Panels formed to undertake eighth economic censusIndia is gearing up for its eighth economic census, employing technology for data collection, while addressing data quality concerns from t...
09 May, 2025, 11.58 PM IST
Statistical business register in works to keep track of all companiesThe government plans to launch a statistical business register by the end of 2025 to track business dynamics, providing an essential framew...
21 Mar, 2025, 11.28 PM IST
MoSPI starts process of preparation of consumer expenditure survey resultsThe ministry of statistics has initiated the preparation of survey results for the Household Consumer Expenditure Survey (2022-24). Field w...
05 Feb, 2024, 04.02 PM IST
Survey soon to gather data from informal sector firmsThe survey captures the unincorporated non-agricultural enterprises in manufacturing, trade and other services in urban and rural areas. Th...
09 Nov, 2023, 12.25 AM IST
MoSPI gears up for 80th national sample surveyThe 79th round of the survey, started in July last year, was termed a comprehensive annual modular survey to create a database of “high-fre...
25 Sep, 2023, 12.47 AM IST
Statistics Ministry to shop online for dataIndia's Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) has approached online grocery platforms BigBasket and Reliance JioMart ...
25 Aug, 2023, 11.53 PM IST
National survey to estimate poverty with new metricsA major exercise has started to help estimate poverty levels, years after the poverty line idea was dumped.
21 Feb, 2020, 12.20 PM IST
MoSPI is giving an increased focus on data quality, assurance, credibility: GovernmentThe government had last month approved the merger of National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) with the Central Statistics Office (CSO) under Mo...
10 Jun, 2019, 09.47 PM IST
Chief statistician to remain head of statistics systemUnder criticism for restructuring the statistical system, the government has clarified that the chief statistician will continue to be the ...
08 Jun, 2019, 07.23 AM IST
Is the job scene in India bad? Depends on how you see it, says govtThe unemployment rate was highest among urban females at 10.8% followed by males at 7.1%.
01 Jun, 2019, 03.27 PM IST
7th Economic Census to cover villages without economic activity“Villages with no economic activity also will be identified for the policy purposes,” the ministry said in the vision document for the cens...
29 May, 2019, 11.11 PM IST
Back series GDP data captured structural changes in the economy: Rao Inderjit Singh"The estimates of back series are better representative of macro economic aggregates of the period for which the estimates have been releas...
03 Jan, 2019, 08.11 PM IST
UNICEF Rapid Survey on Children commissioned in November 2013: Women and Child Development MinistryThe key objective of the survey was to assess the situation of children and women in the country with special emphasis on access and utilis...
10 Jul, 2015, 10.47 PM IST