Price Collection Surveys
in Middle Class Family Living Centres
The Field Operations Division is also associated with the collection of
data on behalf of CSO on prices of selected items, off- take and house rent
enquiries in 59 pre-identified urban centers for use in construction of
Consumer Price Index (CPI) for Urban Non-Manual Employees (UNME) with 1984-85
as the base year. The coverage of items which are centre
specific ranges from 137 to
Rural Price Collection Surveys
The FOD collects data from 603 Villages on prices of specified commodities generally consumed by agricultural / rural labourers for compilation of Consumer Price Index (CPI) (base year 1986-87) for Agricultural / Rural Labourers on behalf of the Labour Bureau. The number of items/commodities covered are about 260.
Market Suevey for CPI(Urban)
The market survey work with an objective of construction of CPI(urban) is conducted in 310 cities / towns from 35 States / UTs covering 1114 quotations.