Nothing Can Correct Faulty Sampling Due to Delayed Census: Pronab Sen
The delay in conducting the census, which was due in 2021, is making old population samples less representative, Pronab Sen, head of the Standing Committee on Statistics and former chief statistician of India, says. He insists that there is nothing wrong with the sampling methodologies, rebutting allegations by Shamika Ravi, member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, about the samples of national surveys being faulty. According to him, the discrepancies that she has referred to were because of the difference in purpose-specific definitions
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