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 much do states spend on healthcare?
Ankur Bhardwaj
India’s Healthcare Expenditure: A Festering Wound
Ankur Bhardwaj
Dominant or Backward? The Maratha Quota Controversy
Ashwini Deshpande & Rajesh Ramachandran
India's Covid vaccinations take a dive
Team CEDA
CEDA-CMIE: Manufacturing jobs halved in 5 years
Ankur Bhardwaj
Covid Vaccination Program: Not a Rosy Picture
Sonal Agarwal & Ankur Bhardwaj
CEDA Coronavirus Policy Brief: Still As Relevant
Team CEDA
WPI Inflation: A Jump Fueled by Low Base
Ankur Bhardwaj
Improving Equality of Opportunity: New Insights from Big Data
Infosys Prize Lecture by Prof Raj Chetty
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.
Know More About CEDAExplore theData Portal
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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Infosys Prize Lecture | Improving Equality of Opportunity: New Insights from Big Data
23 March 2021
Islam, Family Planning and Politics in India: Discussing 'The Population Myth'
15 April 2021
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- 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
Jobs data shows COVID hit services, construction sectors; agriculture shines
By Ankur Bhardwaj
17 May 2021
ExplainSpeaking: Why has Indian manufacturing been losing jobs since 2016?
By Ankur Bhardwaj
17 May 2021
Manufacturing Employment Halves In Five Years: CEDA-CMIE
By Ankur Bhardwaj
15 May 2021
Congress asks BJP Leader to apologise for wrong info on vaccine shortage
By Sonal Agarwal & Ankur Bhardwaj
4 May 2021
Manufacturing sector employment down by 46% in five years, says report
By Ankur Bhardwaj
7 May 2021
India’s Covid vaccine allocation to states presents a picture of inconsistency
By Sonal Agarwal & Ankur Bhardwaj
4 May 2021
Manufacturing employment halves in 5 years
By Ankur Bhardwaj
6 May 2021
Indian women’s job crisis amidst the pandemic
By Ashwini Deshpande
3 May 2021
EPW Twitter Conversations | Examining the economic cost of the gender gap
By Ashwini Deshpande
22 April 2021
