MOSPI constitutes High Level Standing Committee on Economic Statistics headed by Pronab Sen

MOSPI constitutes High Level Standing Committee on Economic Statistics headed by Pronab Sen

• The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation has set up a 27-member single standing committee on economic statistics (SCES) to deliberate and develop methodologies for surveys on industry, services and employment, to improve quality of data.
• Earlier multiple panels used to be constituted to deliberate on these issues.
• The high-level panel will be headed by India’s first Chief Statistician Pronab Sen.
• The SCES will subsume in it the four standing committees on labour force statistics, industrial statistics, services sector and unincorporated sector enterprises.
• It will review the existing framework of data sources, indicators and definitions of index of industrial production, periodic labour force survey, time use survey, economic census and unorganised sector statistics, among others.