Insights, charts, and data that expand understanding of India.
To combat growing concerns that its surveys were missing the wealthy, India began to specially sample affluent neighbourhoods. We examine the merits of this strategy, and identify some changes in the sampling method that have implications on how the data shoul…
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The share of incarcerated people who are yet to be convicted of a crime - undertrials - in India is among the highest in the world. We examine what laws are putting the most undertrials in jail, and how this is changing what India's incarcerated population loo…
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Although heat is most closely associated with India's summer months, our analysis of long-term temperature data shows that the post-monsoon season has warmed up the most, especially during the nights.
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The usage of tobacco is one of the world's biggest public health challenges, directly linked to serious and often fatal conditions. Tobacco usage is declining globally and in India, but the patterns of its use will affect its trajectory.
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How people experience rainfall in India is heavily determined by two factors - the frequency and the intensity of rain. Examining these two indicators by season, India's pre-monsoon period stands out in showing significant changes.
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With falling fertility, India's generational cohorts are experiencing a fundamental realignment. Younger cohorts are no longer dominant in size, and are increasingly squeezed by older cohorts.
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The e-courts database has become an important repository of India's judicial data, and has opened up possibilities of deep empirical research. We describe the dataset, explore what can be done using the data, and note the problems with the data that pose barri…
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India is warming, but the magnitude of this warming varies widely by season and geography. Winter sees the most uniform warming across the country, while the monsoon shows the clearest evidence of sustained long-term warming.