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@misc{pcindia,
title={Census of India},
author={Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India},
year={2011},
note={Accessed via SHRUG \url{https://www.devdatalab.org/shrug_download/}, v2.1.pakora}
@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}
}
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Complete demographics for every town and village in India for 1991, 2001, 2011. Detailed directory of public goods at the town and village level.
In some cases, the Census shows inconsistencies between rural PCA population and village directory population, or between urban PCA and town directory; we advise using the population from the PCA.
The town directory is only recorded for towns, and the village directory for villages. Places that have changed urban status will therefore be missing some before/after data. PCA fields are recorded consistently before and after these changes.
Zero population values may indicate abandoned villages or data entry errors at the Census. We advise dropping from analysis all locations with zero population values in any census year.
In 2011, the amenities tables separately reports the number of public and private schools; we add these together to obtain a count of the number of schools that is consistent with prior years. Users interested in the disaggregated public/private data can link the SHRUG to the raw 2011 Population Census data. Alternately, the raw Economic Census includes data on schools and includes a variable for whether it is government or private.
Some village/town directory fields contain errors or unrealistic values; these data are aggregated directly from the Indian government data and reported as is.