Research Proposals

Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation invites research proposals from eligible institutions on the subjects listed in the table below. Eligible institutions may submit their research proposals under the Grant-in-Aid component of the Ministry's Capacity Development Scheme, at the earliest. The guidelines about the Grant-in-Aid component of the Capacity Development Scheme are available at https://www.mospi.gov.in/grant-aid. The proposal may be submitted in the required format of the Scheme available in the website. The check list may be referred to ensure all required enclosures/documents attached with the proposal. The application/research proposal may be submitted to Additional Director General, Training Division, Central Statistical Organization, M/o Statistics and Programme Implementation (email: training-mospi@nic.in), with copy to the Ministry’s Research and Analysis Unit (email: ra.unit@mospi.gov.in).

S. no. Topics for which research proposals are invited
1.    Assessing the Feasibility of use of Goods and Services Tax (GST) Data in Index of Industrial Production (IIP) compilation, factory selection, item basket selection for IIP and to enhance the data coverage of Annual Survey of Industries (ASI), which in turn will help augment the data frame for IIP.
2.    To estimate the soil erosion prevention service provided by the Forest Ecosystem for two States of India.
3.    Compilation of Ocean Ecosystem Accounts for a specified region.
4.    Carbon Storage in Oceans- To estimate the carbon stored in different subecosystem of the oceans.
5.    Urban ecosystem accounts- Exploring the compilation of some of the indicators of urban accounts using satellite data/geo spatial data.
6.    Strengthening of National Indicator Framework (NIF) for SDGs by
  • Identification of the SDG national indicators for the unaddressed targets
  • Adaptation of SDG global indicators in Indian Context
7.    Use of Mobile data for Tourism statistics
8.    Use of Remote Sensing for estimation of cattle population
9.    Use of night light data for estimating economic development/ infrastructure development/ impact on job creation.
10.    The measurement of depletion of natural sources and hence adjustment of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to arrive at Net domestic Product (NDP).
11.    Preparation of distribution accounts in terms of distribution of households over income and wealth using the existing survey results of NSSO and National Accounts Statistics.
12.    Exploring feasibility of use of data base created by researchers for evidencebased decision making in government.
13.    Time series analysis of the Data on National Income estimates since 1950- 51.
14.    Analysis of Housing Index Methodology across countries
15.    Impact of COVID-19 on Housing Inflation.
16.    Alternate Methods for Compiling the Housing Index.
17.    Cross-referencing the CPI estimates with Wholesales market Price.
18.    Land Inflation - A methodology for compilation of land index, collection of data, design of survey and its possibility in Indian context may be developed.
19.    Use of Scanner data for CPI and HCES
20.    Exploring alternative criteria for stratification used in sampling designs of the surveys of NSSO
21.    Study on the divergence in population estimates arising from the Census and NSS Survey.
22.    Simplification of extraction of unit level data of different surveys of MoSPI.
23.    Identification of Avenues for Harnessing Administrative Data.
24.    Triangulation of Various New Data Sources viz. GST, E-commerce Sales Data, etc., with Conventional Data Sources.
25.    To access the value of official statistics in terms of the financial savings they generate.
26.    Bifurcation of B2C transactions in
  • Transaction with Consumer households; and
  • Transactions with non-registered suppliers from GST data
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