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Is India being unfairly targeted internationally on non-transparency of its official statistics?
FirstpostThe world is doubting its official statistics, a charge the country has never faced in the past even when there were questions about the quality of data collected and the sample size used. The world doubting India’s growth numbers could be even more damaging for the Indian economy than facing criticism on failing to bring back growth momentum. India’s data credibility has come under attack on two fronts — on growth numbers and on employment figures. That being the GDP story, the next round of attack on India’s data came when the Modi government refused to release the results of the latest surveys on the employment count in the country. The National Sample Survey Office, which conducts household surveys on employment situation, wasn’t given permission to release job data that showed the country’s unemployment rate at a 45-year-high of 6.1 percent in 2017-18, a Business Standard report said adding that to speculation that the government is either delaying or hiding data that isn’t favourable to its performance record.
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