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CSO & NSO

 Central Statistics Office (CSO)
• The Central Statistics Office coordinates the statistical activities in
the country and evolves statistical standards.

• It is headed by a Director General assisted by 5 Additional Director

Generals.

• CSO has the following Divisions:

1. National Accounts Division (NAD)

2. Social Statistics Division (SSD)
3. Economic Statistics Division (ESD)
4. Training Division
5. Coordination and Publications Division (CAP
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National Accounts Division (NAD):
• This Division is responsible for the preparation of national accounts, which
includes Gross Domestic Product, Government and Private Final Consumption
Expenditure, Fixed Capital Formation and other macro-economic aggregates.
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• It brings out an annual publication, titled “National Accounts Statistics”,
containing these statistics.

• Other important activities:

• (i) preparation of quarterly estimates of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at
current and constant prices,
• (ii) estimation of Capital Stock and Consumption of Fixed Capital,
• (iii) estimation of State-wise Gross Value Added and Gross Fixed Capital
Formation of supra-regional sectors of Railways, Communication, Banking &
Insurance and Central Government Administration
• (iv) Input-Output Transaction Tables (IOTT)
• (v) preparation of comparable estimates of State Domestic Product (SDP).
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Social Statistics Division (SSD):

• This Division is entrusted with Statistical monitoring of the Millennium

Development Goals, Environmental Economic Accounting, Grant-in-aid for
research, workshop/seminars/conferences in Official/Applied Statistics,
National/International awards for Statisticians, National Data Bank (NDB) on
socioreligious categories, Basic Statistics for Local Level Development (BSLLD)
Pilot scheme, Time-use survey and release of regular and ad-hoc statistical
publications.
Economic Statistics Division (ESD)

• This Division conducts Economic Censuses, compiles All India Index of

Industrial Production(IIP), Energy Statistics and Infrastructure Statistics, and
develops classifications like, National Industrial Classification (NIC) and
National Product Classification (NPC)
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Training Division:

• Responsible for the training manpower in theoretical and applied statistics to

tackle the emerging challenges of data collection, collation, analysis and
dissemination required for evidence based policy making as also for planning,
monitoring and evaluation.

• The Division also looks after the National Statistical Systems Training Academy
(NSSTA), which is a premier Institute fostering human resource development in
official statistics in India as well as at international level, particularly amongst
developing and SAARC countries.
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Coordination and Publications Division (CAP):
• The Division looks after co-ordination work within CSO as well as with the line
Ministries and State/UT Governments in statistical matters, organizes
Conference of Central and State Statistical Organizations (COCSSO) and
‘Statistics Day’ every year, prepares Results Framework Document (RFD),
Citizens’/Clients’ Charter and Annual Action Plan, Outcome Budget and Annual
Plan of the Ministry.
• The Division is also responsible for implementation of Capacity Development
Scheme and Support for Statistical Strengthening (SSS) , a Central Sector
Scheme aimed at improving the Statistical Capacity and Infrastructure of the
State Statistical System for Collecting, Compiling and Disseminating relevant
and reliable official statistics for policy making and to promote their usage at the
State/District and Block Levels.
• It is a nodal Division for administering the Collection of Statistics Act, 2008 and
coordination of follow-up on the implementation of recommendations of NSC
recommendations.
• The administrative work relating to Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) is also looked
after by CAP Division.
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 National Statistical Office (NSO)

• The National Statistical Office (NSO) headed by a Director General is

responsible for conduct of large scale sample surveys in diverse fields on All
India basis.

• Primarily data are collected through nation-wide household surveys on

various socio-economic subjects, Annual Survey of Industries (ASI), etc.

• Besides these surveys, NSO collects data on rural and urban prices and plays
a significant role in the improvement of crop statistics through supervision of
the area enumeration and crop estimation surveys of the State agencies.

• It also maintains a frame of urban area units for use in sample surveys in
urban areas.
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• The NSO has four Divisions:

Survey Design and Research Division (SDRD)

 This Division, located at Kolkata, is responsible for technical planning of
surveys, formulation of concepts and definitions, sampling design,
designing of inquiry schedules, drawing up of tabulation plan, analysis and
presentation of survey results.

Field Operations Division (FOD)

 The Division, with its headquarters at Delhi/Faridabad and a network of six
Zonal Offices, 52 Regional Offices and 117 Sub-Regional Offices spread
throughout the country, is responsible for the collection of primary data
for the surveys undertaken by NSO.
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Data Processing Division (DPD):

• The Division, with its headquarters at Kolkata and 5 other Data Processing
Centers at various places, is responsible for sample selection, software
development, processing, validation and tabulation of the data collected
through surveys.
• Price and Wages in Rural India collected through schedule 3.01(R) is being
processed at DPC Giridih.
• In addition, DPD is also processing the data of Periodic Labour Force
Survey (PLFS). Industrial Statistics Wing (IS Wing), DPD, NSO, Kolkata is
responsible for sample selection, data processing, validation and tabulation of
the Annual Survey of Industries(ASI) data collected through a dedicated
web-portal.

Survey Coordination Division (SCD):

• This Division, located at New Delhi, coordinates all the activities of different
Divisions of NSO. It also brings out the bi-annual journal of NSO, titled
“Sarvekshana”, and organizes National Seminars on the results of various
Socio-economic surveys undertaken by NSO