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Centre for Economic Data and Analysis (CEDA)'s main mission is to forge insightful, informed and evidence-based narratives about India.

🚨 FRESH! In our latest Data Narrative, we analy

🚨 FRESH! In our latest Data Narrative, we analyse data from the Periodic Labour Force Survey to understand the ongoing shifts in women's work in India.

We find that after recording some improvement in recent years, the growth in female labour force participation rate in India now seems to be stagnating. Among the women who work, the share of those who are self-employed has been increasing in recent years, even as their average earnings, already low, have dwindled further. On top of that, more than half of self-employed women worked as unpaid helpers.

Read the full analysis here:

bit.ly/flfp-plfs-2021-22

#womenandwork #jobs #labour #employment

👩‍🏭 In 2002, contract workers made up near

👩‍🏭 In 2002, contract workers made up nearly a fifth of all industrial workers in India.

By 2020, their share had grown to 38.6% of all industrial workers, data from the Annual Survey of Industries shows.

Read about the rise of the contract worker: bit.ly/ceda-contract-workers

#labourforce #manufacturing #jobs #contractworkers

Happy women’s day!

Happy women’s day!

Where do #Indian households #borrow #money from?

Where do #Indian households #borrow #money from?

A new bulletin by Centre for Economic Data & Analysis, Ashoka University and Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy uses data from CMIE's CPHS to investigate ⬇

bit.ly/ceda-household-borrowing

"The most disappointing aspect of the budget has b

"The most disappointing aspect of the budget has been the neglect of the social sectors, particularly health and education. The budgeted expenditure on education and health have been increased by 8 percent and 3 percent, respectively, over the budget for FY 2022-23.

But these increases are in nominal terms. Any reasonable assumption about the likely trajectory of prices during the year must imply only a modest real increase in the education outlay and an actual fall in real expenditure on health. This comes at a time when the aftereffects of Covid-19 still linger strong over the country. “

“A focus on growth alone is particularly hard to justify at this point in time", Bhaskar Dutta, Distinguished University Professor of Economics at Ashoka University writes in our latest Data Narrative.

Read the data narrative here: bit.ly/ceda-budget-2023

#unionbudget2023 #budget2023

#JobAlert: We are looking for the first full-time

#JobAlert: We are looking for the first full-time Director to lead CEDA! ✨

Do you see stories in numbers? Are you deeply interested in a data-driven understanding of socio-economic realities of India? Do you want to co-create a centre at one of the best economics departments in the country?

We may have the perfect role for you!

We are hiring for an exciting opportunity to lead and grow the Centre for Economic Data and Analysis. The Director will lead the centre’s operations and would be responsible for its growth and expansion.

This is an ideal role for someone interested in working at the cross-section of partnerships (with leading foundations, academia and researchers, and corporate sector), intellectual curiosity (by identifying opportunities for CEDA and CEDA affiliated researchers) and operational excellence (responsible for day-to-day management).

Read the job description here and apply now: bit.ly/ceda-director

📢 📢 NEW PUBLICATION: Our report ‘The Impac

📢 📢 NEW PUBLICATION: Our report ‘The Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on People’s Economic Lives’, jointly developed with the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy.

Through much of 2021 and the first half of 2022, our bulletins documented how the pandemic was impacting everyday financial flows and employment. For this, we relied on CMIE’s Consumer Pyramids Household Survey (CPHS), a continuous fast-frequency survey conducted on a panel of households, to answer a range of questions about the impact of the pandemic from different vantage points.

As we set out to move ahead, we believe this is an opportune time to revisit the analysis and think of the disruption afresh.

In our new report, we bring you our bulletins compiled under two broad themes (i) employment and jobs and (ii) incomes, expenditure and saving. The ten bulletins have been republished in their original form, but both sections include a new concluding segment that brings readers an updated understanding on where we stand on each of these indicators.

We hope readers will find this a useful resource!

Read the report at: bit.ly/ceda-cmie-bulletin

What's the link between violence against women and

What's the link between violence against women and women's participation in the workforce?

There is a very widespread belief that rising VAW has been
one of the reasons behind declining female labour force participation rate (FLFPR) writes Professor Ashwini Deshpande but the link between the two is a tenous one, she explains.

Indian FLFPR –which was low at the best of times – has been declining since 2004. Much of this decline has been reported from rural areas, and it has to do with structural shifts in the economy. Technological change in agriculture has displaced female labour by substituting for tasks that women specialise in, and there are few avenues for paid, gainful employment.

As we mark ten years since the brutal gang rape in Delhi, we should be cautious of the belief that women are safe indoors and are at risk only outdoors. That is not the case.

Read the full piece in the link below:

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#indianeconomy #vawg #violenceagainstwomen #FLFPR #womenandwork #ruraleconomy

😍 😍 We are so thrilled to see Professor Ashw

😍 😍 We are so thrilled to see Professor Ashwini Deshpande, our director and mentor-in-chief, included in Forbes' list of top self-made women in India for 2022.
She has been recognised for her research, including our current project that aims to test scalable pilot solutions that can help achieve gender parity at workplaces.
"Ashwini Deshpande, professor of economics at Ashoka University, studies the economics of discrimination—how do race, caste and gender affect economic outcomes. And unlike most economists, she doesn't limit her work to academia, but puts it into practice". Read more here: https://lnkd.in/dEuWki9U

🚨 📢 Attention data lovers - we have news!

🚨 📢 Attention data lovers - we have news!

In the recent past, we have added three exciting datasets to our CEDA Data portal!

1. Our portal now has data from the Annual Survey of Industries (ASI), a nationally representative survey for registered manufacturing enterprises in India. The dataset has important information on a number of important industrial indicators such as manufacturing output, enterprise capital, workers hired, wages paid and outstanding loans.

2. We have also added data for crimes under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) as recorded by the National Crime Records Bureau available at the district level.

3. Today we launched the CEDA EcoMeter - a tool that will allow users to access and visualize high-frequency macroeconomic indicators across industries to understand the Indian economy. From unemployment to foreign exchange reserves, flight data to consumption of fuel, EcoMeter allows exploration of these data, curated from multiple sources frequently.

Hope you find these datasets useful! Please explore, investigate and share any interesting trends you find!

You will find all the data on our website - to access the data, click on the 'Data Portal' button >> Access Data >> CEDA Socio-Economic Data. https://ceda.ashoka.edu.in

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