The National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) is an independent interdisciplinary policy research institute founded in 1956 committed to assist government, civil society and the private sector to make informed policy choices.
The LSE Mi and NCAER have in 2006 made an informal agreement to collaborate in the coming years with exchange of data, support of students and mutual visits of staff. Martin W Bauer and Sally Stares have visited the facilities of NCAER in Delhi, and Rajesh Shukla and Preti Kakar have visited LSE Mi. Dr Rajesh Shukla, Director of the NCAER Centre for Macro Consumer Research (NCAER-CMCR) at NCAER, has been a regular visitor at LSE in recent years also in conjunction with the LSE India Observatory sharing his experience of constructing national representative random sample data for an entire continent in most varied conditions of literacy and urban-rural disparities.
NCAER was created to provide objective data and analysis to support India's economic development through public policy and private initiative. The purpose of the agreement is also to make available the large corpus of data with NCAER-CMCR, arising from numerous national surveys (30,000 - 60,000 observations), to Mi students and LSE staff.
Survey topics include
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National Survey of Household Income and Expenditure (NSHIE)
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Market Information Survey of Households (MISH, 1985 to 2001)
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National Science Survey: Science Education, Human Resource and PUS (2004)
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Domestic Tourism Survey (22002)
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Indian Human Development Survey (2005)
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Rural Economic and Demographic Survey (Panel) (1968, 1980 and 1998)
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National Youth Readership Survey (2009)
Interested parties should contact Martin W Bauer| or Rajesh Shukla|.