As we celebrate India’s 1991 economic reforms, it is also important to know the success stories of recent campaigns. None stand out like LPG.

This article was published on 17 Jul 2021.

The Household Survey on India’s Citizen Environment & Consumer Economy (ICE 360° survey), shows that households in the top quintile earn nearly four times as much as households in the bottom quintile…

This article was published on 13 Jul 2021.

State governments’ health insurance schemes seem to be more popular than those from the centre, finds the ICE 360 survey.

This article was published on 20 Dec 2016.

The Household Survey on India’s Citizen Environment & Consumer Economy (ICE 360° survey), shows that households in the top quintile earn nearly four times as much as households in the bottom quintile, but given that poorer households also tend to be bigger, the difference in per capita incomes is greater.

This article was published on 02 Dec 2016.

The ‘Household Survey on India’s Citizen Environment & Consumer Economy’ (ICE 360° survey) shows that 11% of households own a washing machine while only 6% own a computer or a laptop. The survey covering 61,000 households is among the largest consumer economy surveys in the country.

Mem>This article was published on 13 Dec 2016.

The average monthly household income of the richest 1% of Indians is Rs 66,627 and that of the richest 10% is Rs35,605.

This article was published on 02 Dec 2016.

As most of the high-value currency notes scrapped on 8 November 2016 made their way back to the system, belying earlier expectations, the official narrative around the move shifted from a “surgical strike” against black money to be a great leap towards a cashless economy.

This article was published on 14 Dec 2016.

If you thought homeownership was a sign of wealth and prosperity in India, think again. Unlike in the West, most poor people live in their own homes in India, and it is the relatively more affluent sections of Indian society that live on rent.

This article was published on 05 Dec 2016.

Many still avoid using banking instruments to save despite having access to banks, as per the ICE 360 survey.

This article was published on 15 Dec 2016.

77% of the bottom quintile have a mobile phone, but only 18% of them have access to tap water.

This article was published on 05 Dec 2016.

More than a quarter of Indian households are indebted, and a majority of them borrow from informal sources rather than banks or financial institutions.

This article was published on 19 Dec 2016.

A fifth of bread-winners in India are salaried employees, a third are labourers, and a little less than half of bread-winners are self-employed.

This article was published on 07 Dec 2016.

The money lavished on weddings is more than double the amount spent on higher education in India, shows the ICE 360 Survey.

This article was published on 08 Dec 2016.

Four out of 10 households in India have more than one earning member, according to data from a large-scale nationally representative survey. It shows that 40% of households in India have multiple earners while 60% have only one earning member.

This article was published on 21 Dec 2016.

You may think that eating out and taking a holiday trip are some of the simpler pleasures of life, but fresh data on household spending across India shows that an overwhelming majority of families in India may find such pleasures beyond their reach.

This article was published on 09 Dec 2016.

A majority of Rich India considers itself to be middle class; a third of those actually in the middle of the income distribution pyramid consider themselves to be poor.

This article was published on 22 Dec 2016.

In metros, 22% use a public bus, and 11% use a local train (or metro) to reach work. The proportion of people using auto-rickshaws is higher than those using personal cars and higher than those using hired cabs to reach work in metros, the survey shows.

This article was published on 12 Dec 2016.

The proportion of car-owning households in the country was 5%, according to the 2011 census data. That proportion has more than doubled and, stands at 11% as per the ICE 360° survey 2016.

This article was published on 12 Dec 2016.

The poor use India’s massive public distribution system (PDS) for foodgrains much more than the rich, and rate the quality of grains more favourably than richer income classes, a large-scale nationally representative survey conducted this year shows.

This article was published on 23 Dec 2016.