Data Point: How The Hindu Data Team produced its first podcast series: ‘Vital Signs’
The HinduThe Data Point is a bi-weekly newsletter in which The Hindu’s Data team decodes the numbers behind today’s biggest stories. After the Indian government’s decision on July 20 to ban the export of non-basmati white rice, many social media videos showed several panic-stricken non-resident Indians thronging grocery stores and supermarkets in the United States to hoard bags of rice. But data showed that the U.S.’s dependency on India for rice imports was only 20% compared with Nepal, which was almost completely dependent on India for rice. Notably, of the 140 countries that bought non-basmati white rice from India, Nepal’s dependency on India’s rice has remained the highest in the last five years, while U.S.’s dependency is about 20%. The Data Point titled, ‘Data | 92% Indian women take part in unpaid domestic work; only 27% men do so’, published on September 20, 2020, looked at a State-wise analysis of the correlation of unpaid labour, employment status, and gender.
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