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@misc{ecindia,
title={Economic Census of India},
author={Central Statistics Organisation, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India},
year={2013},
note={\url{http://microdata.gov.in/nada43/index.php/catalog/ECO}}
}
@article{almn2021,
title={Development research at high geographic resolution: an analysis of night-lights, firms, and poverty in India using the shrug open data platform},
author={Asher, Sam and Lunt, Tobias and Matsuura, Ryu and Novosad, Paul},
journal={The World Bank Economic Review},
volume={35},
number={4},
year={2021},
publisher={Oxford University Press}
}
About
Data aggregated from the 3rd through 6th Economic Census, undertaken in the years 1990, 1998, 2005 and 2013. This includes data on informal firms, service sector firms, and public sector establishments including schools and medical clinics.
Geographic Coverage
National
Aggregations
Shrid, District, Subdistrict, Village/Town
Producer
Central Statistical Office (CSO) - Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation (MOSPI)
Variables from each Economic Census have the prefix ecYY, where YY = {90, 98, 05, 13} and corresponds to the year of data collection.
Different rounds of the Economic Census used different inclusion criteria. For instance, the 2013 EC did not include firms in government administration or national defense. To create a consistent set of measures over time, we therefore excluded these industries (NIC2008 Section O) from all prior censuses.
Given the apparent inconsistencies in which agricultural firms were included in different locations and different rounds, we also drop all agricultural firms.
There are a small number of villages with unusually high or low employment numbers in some periods. Because the Economic Census provides little information about firms beyond their employment count and characteristics of that employment, it is difficult to determine whether these measures are valid or not. We advise testing robustness to excluding outliers as measured by employment over population or improbable swings in employment over population from one census to the next.
Shric (SHRUG industrial classification) codes are industrial codes constructed by us, that harmonize NIC codes across various NIC versions (NIC 1987, NIC 2004 and NIC 2008). For more details see Shric Codes. The data on industrial codes can be downloaded from the SHRIC Industry Code module.