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My piece in Indian Express on India's ranking on the Global Gender Gap index. They couldn't use the CEDA graphic in the print version (below). You can check out the interactive version on the CEDA website: https://viz.ceda.ashoka.edu.in/wefchart/

What's behind the recent increase in female LFPR numbers from PLFS? My latest for CEDA. Comments welcome.

Naila Kabeer Radhika Balakrishnan Ipek Ilkkaracan and others

Illusory or real? Unpacking the recent increase in women’s labour force participation in India - CEDA From recording a substantial decline in the first two decades of the millennium, India’s female labour force participation is finally showing some improvement. What’s driving this shift? Key Highlights India’s […]

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We are hiring a Data Manager to help us manage our datasets, ensure data integrity and play a key role in facilitating data-driven research.

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📢📢 HIRING NOW | We are hiring a Data Manager who can help us manage economic datasets and facilitate data-driven research. More details below.

Find the JD and application form here: https://ceda.ashoka.edu.in/jobs-opportunities/

🚨 NEW PUBLICATION: India may be set to overtake China in terms of population, but when will it have a larger labour force vis-a-vis its neighbour?

Our latest Data Narrative tries to answer.

TL;DR: Not so soon.

Read here:

The Elephant is set to overtake the Dragon, or is it? - CEDA Even as India is all set to overtake China in terms of total population, this is not likely to translate to a larger workforce for the country anytime soon

🚨 📢 : We are looking to hire a Research Analyst who can analyse Indian socioeconomic data and write data-based articles for the CEDA website.

The work also involves planning the data visualisations for the written pieces. Additionally, the Analyst will be expected to provide data and research support to other authors and for CEDA’s social media communication.

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🏠 🚿 🗑 Ever wondered how many houses in India were "pucca" houses, with a separate kitchen, a toilet, a bathroom & some arrangement for disposing of household waste?

The answer is less than third!

Only 28.4 percent of houses in India were pucca houses with a separate kitchen, a toilet, a bathroom and some arrangement for disposing of household waste in 2020-21, data from the NSS Round 78 shows. While 60.6 percent of urban houses satisfied these criteria, in rural areas this share was as low as 13.3 percent.

Read our latest Data Narrative to find out more:

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How many Indians live in a pucca house with basic amenities? - CEDA Less than a third of houses in India were pucca houses having a separate kitchen, a toilet, a bathroom with some arrangement for disposing of household waste in 2020-21.

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🍳 🥘 ? Six in ten Indian households were using as their primary fuel for cooking in 2020-21, but this varied greatly based on region, class and community.

Sample this:

Four out of five households in the richest income quintile had access to LPG fuel in 2020-21, but this was true for only half of the households in the bottom two quintiles, data from the NSS Round 78 shows.

Further, while three out of every four dominant caste households reported using LPG as their primary fuel, only 53.3 percent of those from Scheduled Caste communities reported the same.

Among Scheduled Tribe households, only 31.6 percent were using LPG as their primary fuel source, and two-third households relied on firewood in 2020-21.

Read how the use of varies by region, community & class in our latest analysis:

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How many Indian households use clean fuel for cooking? - CEDA Six in ten Indian households were using LPG as their primary source of fuel for cooking in 2020-21, but there was a large gap between urban and rural areas.  […]

🚨 📢 HIRING ALERT: We are looking to hire a Research Associate for our ongoing project investigating women x jobs in India.

The RA will be working with Kanika Mahajan.

The JD and Application form available here: https://lnkd.in/exrSgzp

Applications close: May 15, 2023.

🚰 ? Hand pumps and tube wells were the most common source of drinking water in India in 2020-21. Four in ten Indian households relied on them as their primary source of drinking water.

On the other hand, 36.6 percent of households had access to piped drinking water. But this share varied by region, caste and class.

In our latest 'Picture This', we look at data from the Multiple Indicator Survey (NSS round 78) to understand the primary source of drinking water for Indian households. Read it here:

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What is the primary source of drinking water for Indian households? - CEDA Hand pumps and tube wells remained the most common source of drinking water in India in 2020-21 with 39.7 percent of Indian households relying on them.  Figure 1   […]

💧 ? Nearly a tenth (9.8 percent) of urban households in India used bottled water as their primary source of drinking water in 2020-21.

Here's how this share varied by state: