Building Narratives Through Data
CEDA provides tools for high quality, interactive data visualizations with the power to succinctly summarise large amounts of information into clear and concise, easy to understand statements.
Picture This: How caste increases stunting in Dalit kids
Ashwini Deshpande & Rajesh Ramachandran
How caste increases stunting in Dalit children in India
Ashwini Deshpande & Rajesh Ramachandran
Picture This: Misplaced concerns for population growth
Team CEDA
India’s Industrial Sector: The Rise of the Contract Worker
Ankur Bhardwaj
Fatality vs Cases: Deaths of apathy
Team CEDA
Will India face a third wave of Covid-19?
Shahid Jameel
Picture This: Air pollution affecting Covid fatality in India?
Team CEDA
Picture This: Can India emulate China and eradicate malaria?
Team CEDA
CEDA-CMIE: How do households intend to save?
Ankur Bhardwaj & Ashwini Deshpande
Does India have an Inequality Problem?
Maitreesh Ghatak
Picture This: India's HDI Journey Since 1990
Team CEDA
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CEDA's user-driven and interactive data portal allows you to generate and download visualizations (heatmaps, bar charts, graphs) and tables of a large range of socio-economic and demographic indicators based on large national level datasets for India. You can connect variables across time, geographies, social groups and across datasets. Explore our unique Data Portal to support your work with credible and data-driven visualizations.
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About CEDA
The Economics Department of Ashoka University has set up the Centre for Economic Data and Analysis (CEDA) with the primary aim of facilitating informed debate about economic and social developments in India. To this end, CEDA has developed a public data repository along with a visualization toolkit that is accessible, searchable and interactive, and will be of use to researchers, journalists, policymakers, students and others.
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Islam, Family Planning and Politics in India: Discussing 'The Population Myth'
15 April 2021
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- Misplaced concerns for population growth22 July 2021
- Fatality vs Cases: Deaths of apathy15 July 2021
- Will India face a third wave of Covid-19?12 July 2021
- Air pollution affecting Covid fatality in India?9 July 2021
- Can India emulate China and eradicate malaria?1 July 2021
- Gold, real-estate or business: How do households intend to save?1 July 2021
- Does India have an inequality problem? Is growth vs inequality the right debate? Maitreesh Ghatak explains in this data narrative29 June 2021
- HDI: How States Fare in Human Development15 June 2021
- Covid-19: Economic activity hits a snag7 June 2021
- The Long Cable1 June 2021
- EPFO: Data shows the Covid pandemic hurt younger workforce more31 May 2021
- Covid-19: How vulnerable are Indian states?28 May 2021
- Picture This: India’s unemployment rate in 2020 highest since 199127 May 2021
- India's IIP was falling even before the onset of Covid-19. The decline was further exacerbated by the pandemic. Read to find out more.24 May 2021
- Even in 2017, India knew about the need for more government expenditure on healthcare but a failure to do so led to the perfect storm when coronavirus struck. Read this data narrative for more13 May 2021
- Are Marathas a backward or a dominant caste group? What does data reveal? Ashwini Deshpande and Rajesh Ramachandran analyze in this data narrative7 May 2021
- Despite India's 'Make in India' push, manufacturing now employs nearly half the number of people than it did five years ago. Read the CEDA-CMIE Bulletin to find out6 May 2021
- In the middle of a raging second wave of Covid-19 pandemic, India's vaccination effort has been criticised for being slow. Where has it gone wrong? This data narrative tries to find out27 April 2021
- CEDA Coronavirus Policy Brief: Still As Relevant21 April 2021
- WPI Inflation: A Jump Fueled by Low Base19 April 2021
- Were changes in female labour force participation after the pandemic homogeneous in nature? What does data tell us? Read this data narrative for more14 April 2021
- The Union govt withdrew LPG subsidy last year. A steep increase in LPG cylinder prices now threatens a cleaner future in India. Read this data narrative for more12 April 2021
- WEF's Gender Gap Report ranked India 108 out of 144 in 2016. It is now down to 140 out of 156. What does this slide mean? Read this data narrative for more.11 April 2021
- Picture This: How India and China’s income distributions compare6 April 2021
- Covid-19 setback: The strongest reversal in India’s battle against extreme poverty5 April 2021
- Is there a relationship between television viewership and women's justification for wife beating? Check out what NFHS-4 data tells us1 April 2021
- How badly did Covid-19 pandemic and the nationwide lockdown hurt household expenses in rural and urban India in 2020? Check out the latest CEDA-CMIE details for more25 March 2021
- Yes, female quotas in politics help deliver policy choices that matter to women, argue Sugat Chaturvedi, Sabyasachi Das and Kanika Mahajan in this data narrative.19 March 2021
- No, dynamism in the Indian economy did not have to wait for the liberalising reforms of 1991, write Pulapre Balakrishnan, Mausumi Das and M Parameswaran in this research paper.13 March 2021
- The Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdowns hurt already declining household and individual wage incomes, writes Quartz India as it quotes the CEDA-CMIE Bulletin26 February 2021
- How badly did Covid-19 lockdown impact household and individual income? Read more to find out24 February 2021
- Why does Bhaskar Dutta think that Budget 2021 deserves only a passing grade? Read to find out15 February 2021
- Covid-19 numbers down: Is lower testing the culprit? Check this data narrative for more9 February 2021
- How to make data look better? If data visualisation is your thing, this job at CEDA might be of interest to you3 February 2021
- Time Use Survey: CEDA has converted raw data into stata data files to be analysed readily by researchers.2 February 2021
- Five new Data Narratives on women's work, inequality, malnutrition, gender bias and more18 January 2021
- From the Researchers' Corner: P.C. Mohanan on comparing work estimates from NSS with Time Use Surveys18 January 2021
- Matching districts across years? CEDA portal takes care of that18 January 2021
- NFHS-5 factsheets in Excel worksheets18 January 2021
- National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) district-level data from 1999 to 201718 January 2021
- Price deflators to match quantities across years18 January 2021
CEDA In The News See All
Caste discrimination – an overlooked factor in Indian kids’ stunted growth
By Ashwini Deshpande & Rajesh Ramachandran
29 July 2021
Dalit children more likely to be stunted, shows study
By Himanshi Dhawan
28 July 2021
Time to build a valuable economy
By Pulapre Balakrishnan
19 July 2021
Will there be a third wave?
By Shahid Jameel
15 July 2021
Does India Have An Inequality Problem?
By Maitreesh Ghatak
4 July 2021
Barking up the wrong tree
By Ashwini Deshpande
13 July 2021
Indian health authorities face major challenge to meet target for full vaccination
By Rahul Bedi
5 July 2021
Covid India: Women in rural Bihar hesitant to take vaccines
By Chinki Sinha
1 July 2021
India economy: Seven years of Modi in seven charts
By Nikhil Inamdar & Aparna Alluri
22 June 2021
As India gets vaccinated, women are falling behind. We must mind this gap
By Ashwini Deshpande
21 June 2021
