The trend towards urbanization will pick up pace over the next decade. By 2031, 41 percent of people will be residents of urban India. The top nine metros and 54 boom towns/niche cities will be signi

The proportion of top earners investing in equities and bonds, and purchasing insurance, is much higher than the all-India average. Seventy-two percent of the top...

Electricity, tap water, piped/LPG gas, and toilets are essential amenities and access to these varies according to the economic profile of the households. Nearly 90 percent of all Indian...

Overall, 48 percent of households in India are meeting their basic needs with some difficulty. Nearly 61 percent and 24 percent of Destitute households are struggling...

An overwhelming majority, 87%, of people living in metros belong to the top two quintiles of India's income pyramid but even the richest among them consider themselves 'middle-class', says ICE survey

Nearly thirty years after India's Middle Class rose to a considerable size, the decade of 2020s is witnessing an exciting new trend...

7th Pay Commission: Urban households are likely to absorb 64% of the increased amount which will come from the Seventh Pay Commission award, while rural households will get only 36%...

40% of indebted households in underdeveloped rural areas took loans for social obligations...

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 is the season for quoting, and misquoting, Keynes. "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?" This is attributed to Keynes, though there is no actual evidence Keynes ever said, or wrote, this...

The discussion on the fall in employment after the November 8 demonetisation relies on anecdotal evidence. It is not backed by data...

Rural households collectively outspent their urban counterparts over the past year, according to data from a nationally representative consumer survey...

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, according...

Middle India is largely rural and uneducated, shows the 'Household Survey on India's Citizen Environment & Consumer Economy'...

In Indian context, two-wheeler is less of an automobile and more of an enabler which creates a virtuous cycle of increased mobility towards generating better livelihood...

Income, expenditure and saving-related indicators, when taken together, provide holistic insights into levels of household well-being...

Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan, with a large population, are pulling down other north Indian states in terms of the general well-being status of households...

In part one of a series published in Business Standard, the author uses data on income distribution to show how India's Consumer Economy (ICE) survey is worth deeper analysis...

For A Bindiyan Workforce. There is no denying that India's record on the gender equality front is nothing to be proud of...

Indian Prosperity depends on empowering its Labour Force. The goal of becoming a fully developed nation by year 2047 has been set by the government in no uncertain terms...

People Research on India's Consumer Economy (PRICE) is a fact-tank and a think tank set up to provide the 'people-level' 'single window' view on Consumer India and Citizen India. It focuses on how Indians earn, spend, borrow, save, live, think and access public goods...

Mobility enabled by two-wheelers has a significant relationship with income inequalities...

The challenge for policy-makers is to develop a holistic approach that is flexible enough to accommodate the specific needs of different districts...

Despite the constraints, it is not impossible to collect reliable data on income, expenditure and savings...

Post-Covid recovery of poor households has been faster than expected. But many still need a leg-up...

In a growing economy, for every cluster of households that is rising up the income ladder and contributing to economic growth, there are many that get left behind...

Despite the constraints, it is not impossible to collect reliable data on income, expenditure and savings. In recent times, there has been an increase in public expenditure...

The slogan for policy-makers this year should be Debate, Decide, Do and Deliver. From a social scientist’s point of view, understanding the body politic of the Indian populace and the roots of societal and economic...