State Assistance Programme of DPD
Different States and Union Territories also participate in the socio-economic NSS Round surveys conducted by NSSO; at least on an equal matching sample basis. The samples surveyed by the State Agencies are called ‘State Samples’. The state sample first stage units (FSUs) surveyed by the state agencies (BAE&S, SSB, DES, etc.) are also selected by DPD following the same sampling procedure used for selection of samples surveyed by NSSO.
DPD conducts Data Processing Training Workshop for officials of the state agencies after a few months of launching of the survey in the field, where processing instruments including mechanism for NSS data processing used for central-sample data processing are explained to the participants in details.
The main purpose of this workshop is to share the data processing instruments used for central sample among the States so that they also follow similar validation techniques to maintain the minimum level of data quality and use the common data format. In other words, this will make the State sample data ready for using same set of tabulation software used for Central sample data which in turn will facilitate for generation of pooled estimates combining both the data sets without any extra effort following the laid down procedure for pooling. Participants from many states regularly participate in this type of workshop. Special hands-on training workshops are arranged by DPD for the North Eastern (NE) states taking into account their specific requirement in the area of data processing.
Pooling and Tabulation Workshops for different NSS Rounds are organized by DPD for the States. The All India Pooling and Tabulation Workshop for NSS 73rd Round for all States was organised in 2019 at DPD (HQ), Kolkata. The All India Pooling and Tabulation Workshop for NSS 75th and NSS 76th Round for all States was organised at Kolkata in 2020. The All India Tabulation workshop for NSS 77th round for all States was organised in 2022 wherein several states had participated in a hands-on training for table generation using software developed by DPD. An All India Workshop on NSS 79th Round (for data input both CAPI and windows based) was organised at Kolkata.
As per the COCSSO resolution, validated unit-level data of central-samples are shared with all the States/ UTs for pooling purposes. This is done soon after the unit-level data is disseminated into public domain.
