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@misc{ecindia,
title={Socio Economic and Caste Census},
author={Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India},
year={2011},
}
@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
Assets, consumption, poverty rates, household size, and agriculture variables derived from the Socio-Economic and Caste Census (SECC).
Variables in the SHRUG are aggregated from individual level responses to the Socioeconomic Caste Census (SECC), undertaken primarily in 2011-12. Consumption is not directly recorded by the SECC, but we impute from the asset list and a small-area estimation approach. For data on these estimates and more information see SECC consumption module.
Rural households directly report whether their primary income source is in agriculture, small enterprise, wage work, or another source. We aggregate this and report the share of households in a village that draw their income from agriculture.